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Torsten Pettersson, All Is But Fragments Devoid of Meaning? Semantic Oscillations in Three Poems by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

This article studies three poems by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), but it has two further objectives: to describe the workings of a poetic technique termed “semantic oscillations” and to exemplify a literary reaction to secularization.

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