Poetry as testimony: witnessing and memory in twentieth-century poems
Auteur :
Rowland, Antony
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781032242934
Date de publication :
13 déc. 2021
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
285 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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