Disarchiving Anguish

The book examines the modalities of witnessing in the works of Charles Reznikoff, a Jewish American poet commonly associated with the so-called Objectivist group. It demontrates how the poet alters the contents of archival material to create his own, 'unoriginal' verse called 'recitative.'

Autorentext

Jacek Partyka is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok, Poland. His research interests center on American late modernist and postmodernist poetry, literary representations of genocide, W. H. Auden's reinvention of himself as a new poet in the US, and the literature of the Jewish diaspora in New York City.

Inhalt

Literature of testimony Charles Reznikoff objectivist poetics modalities of witnessing literature and archives uncreative writing depoliticizing the Holocaust Walter Benjamin authorship and appropraition of texts literature and law Jewish-American poetry recitative criminal history of the USA