Tony Harrison and the Holocaust

by Anthony Rowland

Book Overview

This book argues that Tony Harrison's poetry is barbaric. It revisits one of the most misquoted passages of twentieth-century philosophy: Theodor Adorno's apparent dismissal of post-Holocaust poetry as 'impossible' or 'barbaric'. His statement is reinterpreted as opening up the possibility that the awkward and embarrassing poetics of writers such as Harrison might be re-evaluated as committed responses to the worst horrors of twentieth-century history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853235163
• ISBN13: 9780853235163
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.8"