Untersuchungen zur Gattung und Metrik der Dionysos-Dithyrambe „Letzter Wille“ von Fr. Nietzsche

Abstract This paper analyses Nietzsche’s Dionysus-Dithyramb “Letzter Wille” with regard to characteristics of the genre “hymn”, of which the dithyramb can be considered a subgenre. The analysis considers two main concepts: gestures of speech and Freie Rhythmen (free rhythms). Gestures of speech as found in hymns could not be identified in the poem. Instead, the paper proposes that the attribution Freie Rhythmen (free rhythms) serves to characterize the poem. The metrical analysis is based on conceptualizations of Moennighoff and Schulz (2007) and Bunia (2014) and discusses features a...

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