This thesis offers a critical engagement with poetry about Auschwitz in all its various permutations, addressing issues such as why poetry is a particularly valuable form of Holocaust expression, and why different social groups have historically chosen to, and continue to, write poetry about Auschwitz. Adopting an analytical approach, this work foregrounds the poetical works themselves, in order to demonstrate how poetry facilitates an engagement with the past, for both the writer and reader (or indeed, singer and listener). Beginning with the work of those who experienced the Nazi camps first-hand, chapter one discusses the poetry of two survivors, Edith Bruck (b. 1932) and Primo Levi (1919-1987), identifying three driving motivations behi...
Interior Freedom in the French-language Poetry Written in the Concentration Camps (1943-45) ...
Holocaust poetry is a testimony to the power of language and the ability of the Holocaust poet to me...
“To write poetry after Auschwitz is all we can know.” -Marlene Kadar Marlene Kadar’s “Barbaric Poem...
This dissertation considers poetic responses to the Shoah: the critical and cultural consequences of...
The thesis compares the representation of the Second World War, fascism and the Holocaust in Italian...
Holocaust literature is an artistic expression, which in many ways sits outside the established unde...
The term “Holocaust” implies a narrative of religious sacrifice: the impulse to construct coherent s...
This thesis examines how poetic responses to the Holocaust in America, when they emerged, have diffe...
This project explores the complex relationship between language and violence. Many theorists, such a...
This thesis interprets poetry written by those who did not experience events of the Holocaust first-...
January 27, 1945: the Red Army set Auschwitz concentration camp free, making this date the liberatio...
This work suggests a portrait of Edith Bruck: Hungarian Jewish woman surviving Nazi barbarity, Itali...
This excerpt from Nelly Sachs\u27s poem You Onlookers could be read as support for the contention,...
In a series of writings in the 1950s and 1960s, Theodor W. Adorno shaped German debates about art\u2...
The memory of anti-Jewish persecution intersected the work of prominent authors in Italian twentieth...
Interior Freedom in the French-language Poetry Written in the Concentration Camps (1943-45) ...
Holocaust poetry is a testimony to the power of language and the ability of the Holocaust poet to me...
“To write poetry after Auschwitz is all we can know.” -Marlene Kadar Marlene Kadar’s “Barbaric Poem...
This dissertation considers poetic responses to the Shoah: the critical and cultural consequences of...
The thesis compares the representation of the Second World War, fascism and the Holocaust in Italian...
Holocaust literature is an artistic expression, which in many ways sits outside the established unde...
The term “Holocaust” implies a narrative of religious sacrifice: the impulse to construct coherent s...
This thesis examines how poetic responses to the Holocaust in America, when they emerged, have diffe...
This project explores the complex relationship between language and violence. Many theorists, such a...
This thesis interprets poetry written by those who did not experience events of the Holocaust first-...
January 27, 1945: the Red Army set Auschwitz concentration camp free, making this date the liberatio...
This work suggests a portrait of Edith Bruck: Hungarian Jewish woman surviving Nazi barbarity, Itali...
This excerpt from Nelly Sachs\u27s poem You Onlookers could be read as support for the contention,...
In a series of writings in the 1950s and 1960s, Theodor W. Adorno shaped German debates about art\u2...
The memory of anti-Jewish persecution intersected the work of prominent authors in Italian twentieth...
Interior Freedom in the French-language Poetry Written in the Concentration Camps (1943-45) ...
Holocaust poetry is a testimony to the power of language and the ability of the Holocaust poet to me...
“To write poetry after Auschwitz is all we can know.” -Marlene Kadar Marlene Kadar’s “Barbaric Poem...