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Poetry after Auschwitz : remembering what one never knew
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Poetry after Auschwitz : remembering what one never knew

Author: Susan Gubar
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
Series: Jewish literature and culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In this study Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. From the 1960s to the present, as the Shoah receded into a more remote European past, North American and British writers struggled to keep memory of it alive.".
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Gubar
ISBN: 0253341760 9780253341761
OCLC Number: 49415855
Description: xxi, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Holocaust is dying --
Masters of disaster --
Suckled by panic --
About pictures out of focus --
Documentary verse bears witness --
The dead speak --
"Could you have made an elegy for every one?" --
Poetry and survival.
Series Title: Jewish literature and culture.
Responsibility: Susan Gubar.
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Abstract:

"In this study Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. From the 1960s to the present, as the Shoah receded into a more remote European past, North American and British writers struggled to keep memory of it alive.".

"Many contemporary writers - among them Anthony Hecht, Gerald Stern, Sylvia Plath, William Heyen, Michael Hamburger, Irena Klepfisz, Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, Jacqueline Osherow, and Anne Michaels - have grappled with personal and political, ethical and aesthetic consequences of the disaster. Through confessional verse and reinventions of the elegy, as well as documentary poems about photographs and trials, poets serve as proxy-witnesses of events that they did not experience firsthand. By speaking about or even as the dead, these men and women of letters elucidate what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation."--BOOK JACKET.

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