The terror of our days : four American poets respond to the Holocaust / Harriet L. Parmet

Publication | Library Call Number: PS310.H64 P37 2001

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Parmet, Harriet L.
Published: Bethlehem, [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2001
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) and index
Language: English
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Physical Description: 268 p. ; 24 cm
Contents: 1: Introduction: Key Critical and Literary Approaches to Holocaust Literature
2: The Confessional Poetry of Sylvia Plath and William Heyen: Searching for Expiation, Identification, and Communion with the Victims
3: Gerald Stern Weeps and Mourns and Eulogizes: Holocaust Poetry as Catharsis for Guilt
4: Jerome Rothenberg and the Quest to Assuage Familial Loss: Poetry as an Alternative to Silence
5: Conclusion: Finding the Words.
ISBN: 0934223637
Notes: Based on the author's doctoral dissertation (Lehigh University).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) and index.
Subjects: American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Literature and the war.
Jews in literature.
Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.
Heyen, William,--1940---Criticism and interpretation.
Stern, Gerald,--1925---Criticism and interpretation.
Rothenberg, Jerome,--1931---Criticism and interpretation.
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