German and European Poetics After the Holocaust: Crisis and Creativity

Crisis presents chances for change and creativity: Adorno's famous dictum that writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted discourse on poetics, but has also given rise to poetic and theoretical acts of resistance. The essays in this volume discuss postwar poetics in terms of new poetological directions and territory rather than merely destruction of traditions. Embedded in the discourse triggered by Adorno, the volume's foci include...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571132902
• ISBN13: 9781571132901
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"