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UNINA9910453530403321 |
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Autore |
Rowland Anthony |
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Titolo |
Tony Harrison and the Holocaust [[electronic resource]] |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-790-7 |
1-84631-425-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Collana |
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Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 39 ; ; v.v.39 |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 awkward and embarrassing poetics of writers such as Harrison might be re-evaluated as committed responses to the |
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