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Poetry as Testimony

Poetry as Testimony

Antony Rowland

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2021
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9781032242934
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This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that testimonial poetry requires a different approach to traditional ways of dealing with poems due to the pressure of the metatext (the original, traumatic events), the poems’ demands for the hyper-attentiveness of t

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