Poetry as Testimony: Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems

ISBN-13: 9781032242934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 194 str.

Antony Rowland

Opis

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

Recenzje

"Recommended." -- H I Needler, Wesleyan University, CHOICE

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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