Tony Harrison and the Holocaust /

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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 aw...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rowland, Antony (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2001.
Series:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 39.
Subjects:
Harrison, Tony, > 1937- > Criticism and interpretation.
Harrison, Tony, > 1937-
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
War poetry, English > History and criticism.
War in literature.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Littérature et guerre.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature.
Guerre dans la littérature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
War and literature.
War poetry, English.
Holocaust.
Gedichten.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Cinema, Masturbation and Peter Pan: A Non-Victim Approach to the Holocaust; 2: Amorous Discourse and 'Bolts of Annihilation' in the American Poems; 3: Mourning and Annihilation in the Family Sonnets; 4: The Fragility of Memory; 5: Culture/Barbarism Dialectics in Harrison's Poetry; Bibliography; Index.

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