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Si·sy·phos·ar·beit N f

Sisyphosarbeit
Sisyphosarbeit
Sisyphean task liter

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„ Dennoch bleibt das Ziel bestehen, der Lyrik eine unverwechselbare Identität zu geben “, betont Mehltretter.

„Wie wir zeigen konnten, greift die Lyriktheorie bei dieser Sisyphosarbeit bis heute auf die in der italienischen Renaissance begonnenen Versuche zurück.“ (suwe)

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Like the members of a family, lyrical forms and themes can be usefully compared without insisting that all must be reducible to a lowest common denominator. “ Nevertheless ”, Mehltretter insists, “ the goal is still the same – to define an unambiguous identity for the lyric.

As we have shown, modern efforts to accomplish this Sisyphean task remain indebted to the early attempts to devise a theory of the lyric during the Italian Renaissance." suwe

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