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Poetry as Testimony: Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems - Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Antony Rowland
Poetry as Testimony: Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems - Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Antony Rowland
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
194 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 13, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9781032242934 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 194 |
Dimensions | 285 g |
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