The Edge of Modernism
Subtitle: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801882319
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; History and criticism; USA; American - General; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; American poetry; 20th century; History; Literature and history
First sentence: Seldom in the theories of social, cultural, and aesthetic modernisms has the trauma of genocide featured prominently in what defines the modern condition.