| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 203 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism |
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Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism.
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| Contents |
1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Permeability of Terms -- 1.2 The Benefits and Dangers of Empathy -- 1.3 The Poetry of Empathetic Dissonance after Three Contemporary Crises -- 1.4 The Chapters -- References -- 2 The Unsaid -- 2.1 The Unsaid and the Holocaust -- 2.2 The Unsaid and 9/11 -- 2.3 The Unsaid and Hurricane Katrina -- References -- 3 The Unhere -- 3.1 The Unhere and the Holocaust -- 3.2 The Unhere and 9/11 -- 3.3 The Unhere and Hurricane Katrina -- References -- 4 The Ungod -- 4.1 The Ungod and the Holocaust -- 4.2 The Ungod and 9/11 -- 4.3 The Ungod and Hurricane Katrina -- References -- 5 Conclusion -- 5.1 Challenges and Limitations -- 5.2 Empathy: Thread and Needle -- 5.3 Alternative Avenues -- 5.4 Future Directions -- 5.5 To the Reader -- 5.6 Unconclusion |
| Summary |
This book examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The text argues that, recognizing both the possibilities and dangers of empathy, the poems under consideration variously invite and refuse empathy, thus displaying what Anna Veprinska terms empathetic dissonance. Veprinska proposes that empathetic dissonance reflects the texts' struggle with the question of the value and possibility of empathy in the face of the crises to which these texts respond. Examining poems from Charlotte Delbo, Dionne Brand, Niyi Osundare, Charles Reznikoff, Robert Fitterman, Wisława Szymborska, Cynthia Hogue, Claudia Rankine, Paul Celan, Dan Pagis, Lucille Clifton, and Katie Ford, among others, Veprinska considers empathetic dissonance through language, witnessing, and theology. Merging comparative close readings with interdisciplinary theory from philosophy, psychology, cultural theory, history and literary theory, and trauma studies, this book juxtaposes a genocide, a terrorist act, and a natural disaster amplified by racial politics and human disregard in order to consider what happens to empathy in poetry after events at the limits of empathy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Poetry, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Empathy in literature.
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Poetry, Modern
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Empathy in literature
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Poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030343200 |
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3030343200 |
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