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• Title:
  «Den verkliga festen, som är dödstyst» – Tomas Tranströmers "Blåsipporna" und das Heilige
• Creator:
  Seiler, Thomas
• Description:
  Tranströmer’s prose poem Blåsipporna ("The Liverleafs") is rather cryptic. By reading the text in the light of Kant’s theory of the sublime and by focusing on its mysterious and paradoxical aspects, this essay seeks to unveil the poem’s hidden eschatology. The poem’s transcendence is the result of the rhetorical and literary devices the poet is using to depict an ecstatic experience. Such an experience is beyond rationality, hence the wording’s irrationality. In addition, the poem addresses silence, as the experience of ecstasy can never be expressed by words. Thus, "Blåsipporna" is a piece of art and a sacred text at the same time.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Thomas Seiler
• Date:
  2021.06.22
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Articles
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia; Vol. 30 (2021); 4-14;
  Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia; Tom 30 (2021); 4-14;
  2299-6885;
  1230-4786
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fsp/article/view/28643/25737
• Subject:
  Tomas Tranströmer;
  Prosagedicht;
  das Erhabene (Kant);
  das Heilige (Rudolf Otto);
  prose poem;
  the sublime (Kant);
  eschatology
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fsp/article/view/28643
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text