Hart The Poetics of Otherness

War, Trauma, and Literature
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-47745-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 263 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolomé de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hart, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Trauma 3. The Literary and the Other 4. Trauma in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries 5. Travel, Alterity, and Culture 6. Violence, War, and Poetry 7. Representing the Great War 8. Poetry and the First World War 9. Poetry and the Second World War 10. Voices from the Holocaust 11. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Hart is a poet, critic, historian, and prolific author. His books include Theater and World, Breath and Dust, Representing the New World, Empires and Colonies, Musing, Dreamwork, and From Shakespeare to Obama. He has held appointments and visiting appointments at Toronto, Cambridge, Alberta, the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), Princeton, Harvard, among others.