Antony Rowland

Poetry as Testimony

Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that testimonial 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 t

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781032242934
• ISBN-10: 1032242930
• Artikelnr.: 62952997

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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