Holocaust Poetry : : Awkward Poetics in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes / / Antony Rowland.

The first critical study of post-Holocaust poetry in BritainDraws on a new critical vocabulary and concept of 'awkward poetics' to discuss the poets' writingPresents an original reading of Sylvia Plath's 'camp poetics'.One of the first books to use material from the Ted...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2005
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Camp Poetics and Holocaust Icons in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
  • 2 'Beauty ... remains "a brief gasp between one cliche and another'": Awkward Poetics in Geoffrey Hill's The Triumph of Love
  • 3 'There's something for everyone in a myth': Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Classics in Tony Harrison's Prometheus
  • 4 Ted Hughes, Peephole Metaphysics and the Poetics of Extremity
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index