Poetry After Auschwitz : Remembering What One Never Knew Paperback / softback
by Susan Gubar
Part of the Jewish Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
In this pathbreaking study, Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition.
From the 1960s to the present, as the Shoah receded into a more remote European past, many contemporary writers grappled with personal and political, ethical and aesthetic consequences of the disaster.
By speaking about or even as the dead, these poets tell what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation.
This moving meditation by a major feminist critic finds in poetry a stimulant to empathy that can help us take to heart what we forget at our own peril.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:340 pages, 20 b&w photos, 1 color photos
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:18/10/2006
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- ISBN:9780253218872
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:340 pages, 20 b&w photos, 1 color photos
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:18/10/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253218872
