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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Who are "you?": addressivity and vicarious testimony in Wilfred Owen's poems
- Culpability and the lyric in Tadeusz Borowski's selected poems
- The oasis poets: perpetrators, victims and soldier testimony
- Provisional testimony in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and after
- Poetry as metatestimony: Primo Levi's collected poems
- Voices magazine: working-class testimony and everyday suffering
- A "map of trauma whose borders are still missing": poetry and 9/11.