Trakl, Georg - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Biography

Sharp, Francis Michael. "Georg Trakl." In Major Figures of Austrian Literature: The Interwar Years 1918-1938, pp. 459-86. Riverside: Ariadne Press, 1995.

Argues that despite his slight oeuvre and short life, Trakl sustains his appeal to readers.

Criticism

Brown, Russell E. "Attribute Pairs in the Poetry of Georg Trakl." Modern Language Notes Vol. 82, No. 4 (October 1974): 439-45.

Investigates Trakl's innovations with German syntax, especially his word pairs, which fragment his worldview and creates a modernistic sense of "free-floating suspension."

Harries, Karsten. "Language and Silence: Heidegger's Dialogue with Georg Trakl." Martin Heidegger and the Question of Literature: Toward a Postmodern Literary Hermeneutics, pp. 155-71. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.

Revisits Heidegger's pivotal...

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