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This chapter places Rilke's writings and aesthetics within the broader context of modernism. Although there is little debate today about whether or not Rilke can be regarded as a modernist writer, the question as to how exactly he fits into the history and landscape of European modernism is less straightforward to answer. Never a card-carrying member of any of the numerous modernist movements that emerged during the modernist period, nor a signatory to any of the manifestos issued by these groups, he was given to styling himself as a solitary writer beyond movements. Rilke's relationship to modernism as a whole, and to individual movements within it, thus represents an individual inflection of the modes and structures of modernism to his own particular poetics.
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This chapter places Rilke's writings and aesthetics within the broader context of modernism. Although there is little debate today about whether or not Rilke can be regarded as a modernist writer, the question as to how exactly he fits into the history and landscape of European modernism is less straightforward to answer. Never a card-carrying member of any of the numerous modernist movements that emerged during the modernist period, nor a signatory to any of the manifestos issued by these groups, he was given to styling himself as a solitary writer beyond movements. Rilke's relationship to modernism as a whole, and to individual movements within it, thus represents an individual inflection of the modes and structures of modernism to his own particular poetics.
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