Poetry as Testimony : Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems.
This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that testamentary poetry requires a different approach to traditional ways of dealing with poems due to the pressure of the metatext (the original, traumatic events), the poem...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;
33. |
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| Summary: | This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that testamentary poetry requires a different approach to traditional ways of dealing with poems due to the pressure of the metatext (the original, traumatic events), the poems' demands for the hyper-attentiveness of the reader, and a paradox of identification that often draws the reader towards identifying with the poet's experience, but then reminds them of its sublimity. He engages with the work of a diverse range of twentieth-century authors and across the literat. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 183 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-178) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781134742653 1134742657 1306539587 9781306539586 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |