Death and Heterotopias: Representations of Modernity in Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Abstract This essay explores the thematization of death and modernity in Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge through a framework of Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. Described as spaces that are simultaneously mythic and real, heterotopias are special spaces embedded with more than one apparent layer of meaning. The... Read More