Tony Harrison and The Holocaust
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19932240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antony Rowland (0000-0002-6196-9662, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Tony Harrison and the Holocaust (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5949/upo9781846314254 |
| OpenAlex | W4297671457 |
| Open Library | OL3618167M |
| ISBN | 9781846314254 |
| GOOGLE_BOOK_ID | huwTcBiFgtAC |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This book argues that Tony Harrison's poetry is barbaric. It revisits 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. Most of the existing critical work on Harrison focuses on his representation of class, which occludes his interest in other aspects of historiography. The poet's predilection for establishing links between the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the prospect of global annihilation is examined as a commitment to oppose the dangers of linguistic silence. Hence Harrison's work can be read fruitfully within the growing field of Holocaust Studies. Harrison's status as a ‘non-victim’ author of the events is stressed throughout. His writing of the Holocaust, allied bombings and atom bomb is mediated by his reception of the events through newsreels as a child, and his adoption and subversion, as an adult poet, of traditional poetic forms such as the elegy and sonnet.
Art history · Political science · Psychoanalysis · The Holocaust · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact · 1939-1945 · biography · Criticism and interpretation · English War poetry · English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · Gedichten · History and criticism · Holocaust · Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), in literature · Literature and the war · Poetry · Poets · Tony Harrison (1937-) · War and literature · War in literature · World War · World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |