Tony Harrison and the Holocaust [electronic resource].
Rowland, Anthony.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2001.
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
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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
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
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Harrison, Tony, 1937-
Harrison, Tony.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
World War, 1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
War poetry, English
War in literature
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature