1960 : : When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern / / Al Filreis.
In 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it. They chose to confront the unprecedented horror and mass killing of the war, searching for new creative and political possibilities after the conservatism of the 1950s...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1. Emerging from the Night of the Word
- 1 An Introduction to the Survivor: New Contexts for Genocide
- 2 Pain- Laden Rhymes: Challenges to Narrative and the Radical “Writing I”
- 3 Openings of the Field: Deep Memory and Its Counterwords
- Part 2. The End of the End of Ideology
- 4 Absurd Judgment: Auden, Arendt, Eichmann, and the Kafka Revival
- 5 Oppose the Anti- Everything: Zero Art and the Hopeful Leap
- 6 Adjustment and Its Discontents: Aleatory Art vs. Cold War Deradicalization
- 7 Disaster Defies Utterance: Arts of the Unsayable
- 8 Thaw Poetics: Folk Revival, Radical Unoriginality, and the Old Word Witness
- 9 Abomunism: Wars Within Wars in American Poetry
- 10 Favorite Things
- Notes
- Index