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Traumatic Verses
Andrés Nader
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Description for Traumatic Verses
Paperback.
Close readings of -- and the stories behind -- poems that are direct documents of the Holocaust. Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Christianstadt, Dachau. The names of Nazi concentration camps evoke images of radical destitution. The atrocities we call the Holocaust defy comprehension, while thinkers continue to ponder the possibility of "poetry after Auschwitz." And yet a number of people composed poems while imprisoned in the camps. Unlike most documents about the camps, these poems are self-representations that convey the perspective of the inmates who wrotethem. Traumatic Verses provides psychoanalytically informed close readings of a range of poems and discusses their significance ... Read more
Close readings of -- and the stories behind -- poems that are direct documents of the Holocaust. Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Christianstadt, Dachau. The names of Nazi concentration camps evoke images of radical destitution. The atrocities we call the Holocaust defy comprehension, while thinkers continue to ponder the possibility of "poetry after Auschwitz." And yet a number of people composed poems while imprisoned in the camps. Unlike most documents about the camps, these poems are self-representations that convey the perspective of the inmates who wrotethem. Traumatic Verses provides psychoanalytically informed close readings of a range of poems and discusses their significance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571134806
SKU
V9781571134806
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Traumatic Verses
Winner, 2008 Modern Language Association Book Prize for Independent Scholars; from the statement of the Selection Committee:
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Leading a new generation of students of the Holocaust, Nader persuasively analyzes the psychological needs and motivations behind ... poetry composed in the concentration camps. Displaying a strong command of trauma and pain theory, as well as the prior history ... Read more
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Leading a new generation of students of the Holocaust, Nader persuasively analyzes the psychological needs and motivations behind ... poetry composed in the concentration camps. Displaying a strong command of trauma and pain theory, as well as the prior history ... Read more