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This book argues that Tony Harrison's poetry is barbaric. It revisits one of the most misquoted passages of twentieth-century philosophy: Theodor Adorno's apparent dismissal of post-Holocaust poetry as 'impossible' or 'barbaric'. His statement is reinterpreted as opening up the possibility that the awkward and embarrassing poetics of writers such as Harrison might be re-evaluated as committed responses to the worst horrors of twentieth-century history. Most of the existing critical work on Harrison focuses on his representation of class, which occludes his interest in other aspects of historiography. The poet's predilection for establishing links between the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the prospect of global annihilation is examined as a commitment to oppose the dangers of linguistic silence. Hence Harrison's work can be read fruitfully within the growing field of Holocaust Studies: his texts enter into arguments about the ethics of representing traumatic incidents that still haunt the contemporary. Harrison's status as a 'non-victim' author of the events is stressed throughout. His writing of the Holocaust, allied bombings and atom bomb is mediated by his reception of the events through newsreels as a child, and his adoption and subversion, as an adult poet, of traditional poetic forms such as the elegy and sonnet. This book also discusses the ways in which Holocaust literature engages with a number of concepts challenged or altered by the historical events, such as love, mourning, memory, humanism, culture and barbarism, articulacy and silence.
Harrison, Tony. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature --- War poetry, English --- War in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- English war poetry --- English poetry --- World War, 1939-1945, in literature --- Literature and the war --- History and criticism --- Harrison, Tony, --- Harrison, T. W. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- War in literature. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism.
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This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. The author argues that the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and he investigates whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately defined as metamodernist. Antony Rowland analyses the ways in which contemporary British poets such as Geoffrey Hill, J. H. Prynne, Geraldine Monk and Sandeep Parmar have responded to the work of modernist writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot, H. D. and Antonin Artaud, and what Theodor Adorno describes as the overall enigma of modern art.
English poetry --- Experimental poetry, English --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Crepuscolarismo --- English experimental poetry --- English literature
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English poetry --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Poésie anglaise --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire et critique
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Literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Memory. --- Poetry --- Poetry. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Psychic trauma. --- Self-disclosure in literature. --- Self-disclosure. --- Witnesses in literature. --- Witnesses. --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999.
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Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the explosion and radical extension of human rights discourse; renewed cultural interest in perpetrators of violence alongside the phenomenal commercial success of victim testimony (in the form of misery memoirs); and the emergence of disciplinary interest in genocide, terror, and other violent atrocities. These issues are necessarily inflected by the question of witnessing violence, pain, and suffering at both the local and global level, across cultures, and in postcolonial contexts. At the volume's core is an interdisciplinary concern over the current and future nature of witnessing as it plays out through a 'new' Europe, post-9/11 US, war-torn Africa, and in countless refugee and detention centers, and as it is worked out by lawyers, journalists, medics, and novelists. The collection draws together an international range of case-studies, including discussion of the former Yugoslavia, Gaza, and Rwanda, and encompasses a cross-disciplinary set of texts, novels, plays, testimonial writing, and hybrid testimonies. The volume situates itself at the cutting-edge of debate and as such brings together the leading thinkers in the field, requiring that each address the future, anticipating and setting the future terms of debate on the importance of testimony.
Psychic trauma in literature. --- Testimony (Theory of knowledge) --- Witnesses in literature. --- Recollection (Psychology) --- Memory --- Psychic trauma and mass media. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society. --- Social aspects. --- Witnesses. --- Truth commissions. --- Human rights.
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Women and literature --- History --- Duffy, Carol Ann --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Developmental psychology --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Film --- Theatrical science --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- Poetry --- Fiction --- Movies --- Video games --- Literature --- Images of men --- Masculinity --- Sport --- Theatre --- Fatherhood --- Book --- Dancing --- Gaskell, Elizabeth --- Brontë, Charlotte
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