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Tony Harrison and the Holocaust
Antony Rowland
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Paperback. Argues that Tony Harrison's poetry is barbaric. This book discusses the ways in which Holocaust literature engages with a number of concepts challenged or altered by the historical events, such as love, mourning, memory, humanism, culture and barbarism, articulacy and silence. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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 awkward and embarrassing poetics of writers such as Harrison might be re-evaluated as committed responses to the worst horrors of twentieth-century history. Most of the existing critical work on Harrison focuses on his representation of class, which occludes his interest in other aspects of historiography. The poet’s predilection for establishing links between the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, ... Read more
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 awkward and embarrassing poetics of writers such as Harrison might be re-evaluated as committed responses to the worst horrors of twentieth-century history. Most of the existing critical work on Harrison focuses on his representation of class, which occludes his interest in other aspects of historiography. The poet’s predilection for establishing links between the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780853235163
SKU
V9780853235163
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About Antony Rowland
Antony Rowland is Professor in English at the University of Salford.
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