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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453530403321

Autore

Rowland Anthony

Titolo

Tony Harrison and the Holocaust [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-78138-790-7

1-84631-425-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 39 ; ; v.v.39

Disciplina

821.914

821/.914

Soggetti

Harrison, Tony

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

World War, 1939-1945 - Literature and the war

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature - History and criticism

War poetry, English

War in literature

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 historio