Poetry after Auschwitz

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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.". "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.

subjects: American poetry,  English poetry,  History and criticism,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature,  Intellectual life,  Jewish authors,  Jewish poetry,  Jews,  Jews in literature,  Judaism and literature,  Judaism in literature,  Literature and the war,  War and literature,  World War, 1939-1945,  89.21 fascism,  Poésie juive,  Schreiben nach Auschwitz,  Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945,  Juifs dans la littérature,  Judenvernichtung,  Poésie anglaise,  Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature,  Vie intellectuelle,  Juifs,  Poésie américaine,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature,  Guerre et littérature,  Auteurs juifs,  Judaïsme dans la littérature,  17.80 literary theory: general,  Judaïsme et littérature,  Histoire et critique,  Littérature et guerre,  Lyrik,  English poetry, history and criticism,  American poetry, jewish authors

Places: English-speaking countries,  Great Britain,  United States

Times: 20th century