Tony Harrison and the Holocaust [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Rowland Anthony
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.914; 821/.914
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Tony Harrison and the Holocaust
• ISBN: 1-78138-790-7; 1-84631-425-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453530403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 39