1st Edition
Poetry as Testimony Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems
By Antony Rowland
Copyright 2014
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Antony Rowland is Chair in Contemporary Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK
"Recommended." -- H I Needler, Wesleyan University, CHOICE
