The Night-Death binomial as a poetic ploy - a cross-cultural look from the graveyard poets to expressionism

The essay describes the use of the Night-Death binomial and tracks its evolution from the eighteenth century to Expressionism across Great Britain, Germany, Spain, and Austria, at the hand of poems such as Edward Young’s Night Thoughts (1745), Novalis’s Hymnen an die Nacht, (1800), José Blanco White...

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Main Author: Lioba Simon-Schuhmacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2015-11-01
Series:Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura
Online Access:http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/8240