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Poetry as Testimony - Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems (Hardcover, New)
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Poetry as Testimony - Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class
poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that
testamentary 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 the reader, and a paradox of identification
that often draws the reader towards identifying with the poet's
experience, but then reminds them of its sublimity. He engages with
the work of a diverse range of twentieth-century authors and across
the literature of several countries, even uncovering new archival
material. The study ends with an analysis of the poetry of 9/11,
engaging with the idea that it typifies a new era of testimony
where global, secondary witnesses react to a proliferation of media
images. This book ranges across the literature of several
countries, cultures, and historical events in order to stress the
large variety of contexts in which poetry has functioned
productively as a form of testimony, and to note the importance of
the availability of translations to the formation of literary
canons.
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