LEADER 03998nam 22006012 450 001 9910782249103321 005 20170817100057.0 010 $a1-78138-790-7 010 $a1-84631-425-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541227 035 $a(EBL)380730 035 $a(OCoLC)476209888 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000071297 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11110097 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071297 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10090214 035 $a(PQKB)11030607 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127390 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781387900 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380730 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541227 100 $a20170307d2001|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTony Harrison and the Holocaust /$fAntony Rowland$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2001. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 326 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aLiverpool English texts and studies ;$v39 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a0-85323-506-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle 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 330 $aThis book argues that Tony Harrison's poetry is barbaric. It revisits one of the most misquoted passages of twentieth-century philosophy: Theodor Adorno's apparent dismissal of post-Holocaust poetry as 'impossible' or 'barbaric'. His statement is reinterpreted as opening up the possibility that the awkward and embarrassing poetics of writers such as Harrison might be re-evaluated as committed responses to the worst horrors of twentieth-century history. Most of the existing critical work on Harrison focuses on his representation of class, which occludes his interest in other aspects of historiography. The poet's predilection for establishing links between the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the prospect of global annihilation is examined as a commitment to oppose the dangers of linguistic silence. Hence Harrison's work can be read fruitfully within the growing field of Holocaust Studies: his texts enter into arguments about the ethics of representing traumatic incidents that still haunt the contemporary. Harrison's status as a 'non-victim' author of the events is stressed throughout. His writing of the Holocaust, allied bombings and atom bomb is mediated by his reception of the events through newsreels as a child, and his adoption and subversion, as an adult poet, of traditional poetic forms such as the elegy and sonnet. This book also discusses the ways in which Holocaust literature engages with a number of concepts challenged or altered by the historical events, such as love, mourning, memory, humanism, culture and barbarism, articulacy and silence. 410 0$aLiverpool English Texts and Studies, 39 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xLiterature and the war 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature 606 $aWar poetry, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWar in literature 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xLiterature and the war. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 615 0$aWar poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWar in literature. 676 $a821/.914 700 $aRowland$b Antony$01484514 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782249103321 996 $aTony Harrison and the Holocaust$93703182 997 $aUNINA