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E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Rowland Poetry as Testimony


Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

ISBN: 978-1-134-74272-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
 Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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 literature of several countries, even uncovering new archival material. The study ends with an analysis of the poetry of 9/11, engaging with the idea that it typifies a new era of testimony where global, secondary witnesses react to a proliferation of media images. This book ranges across the literature of several countries, cultures, and historical events in order to stress the large variety of contexts in which poetry has functioned productively as a form of testimony, and to note the importance of the availability of translations to the formation of literary canons.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Rowland, Antony

Weitere Infos & Material

Introduction 1. Who are ‘You’?: Addressivity and Vicarious Testimony in Wilfred Owen’s Poems 2. Culpability and the Lyric in Tadeusz Borowski’s Selected Poems 3. The Oasis Poets: Perpetrators, Victims and Soldier Testimony 4. Provisional Testimony in Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After 5. Poetry as Metatestimony: Primo Levi’s Collected Poems 6. Voices magazine: Working-class Testimony and 'Everyday Suffering' 7. A ‘map of trauma whose borders are still missing’: Poetry and 9/11 Conclusion

Antony Rowland is Chair in Contemporary Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK

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