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Demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. By speaking about or even as the dead, this work tells what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation.

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A sensitive and superb treatment of Holocaust literature; the author . . . treats Holocaust art with sensitivity, introspection, respect, and humanity in a clear, readable, and elegant prose. Gubar's book will prove to be a seminal work in Holocaust studies.

* H-Holocaust *

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations for citations
1. The Holocaust Is Dying
2. Masters of Disaster
3. Suckled by Panic
4. About Pictures Out of Focus
5. Documentary Verse Bears Witness
6. The Dead Speak
7. "Could You Have Made an Elegy for Every One?"
8. Poetry and Survival
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Poetry After Auschwitz Remembering What One

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 18/10/2006
      ISBN13: 9780253218872, 978-0253218872
      ISBN10: 025321887X
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      Literary studies: poetry and poets Social groups: religious groups and communities

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. By speaking about or even as the dead, this work tells what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation.

      Trade Review

      A sensitive and superb treatment of Holocaust literature; the author . . . treats Holocaust art with sensitivity, introspection, respect, and humanity in a clear, readable, and elegant prose. Gubar's book will prove to be a seminal work in Holocaust studies.

      * H-Holocaust *

      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations
      Preface
      List of Abbreviations for citations
      1. The Holocaust Is Dying
      2. Masters of Disaster
      3. Suckled by Panic
      4. About Pictures Out of Focus
      5. Documentary Verse Bears Witness
      6. The Dead Speak
      7. "Could You Have Made an Elegy for Every One?"
      8. Poetry and Survival
      Notes
      Works Cited
      Index

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