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Lyric witness : intergenerational (re)collection of the Holocaust in contemporary American poetry / Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Kolchinsky, Julia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- American literature.
- Holocaust studies.
- Creative writing.
- Musical performances.
- Comparative Literature and Literary Theory--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Literature.
- American literature.
- Holocaust studies.
- Creative writing.
- Musical performances.
- Comparative Literature and Literary Theory--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertations Abstracts International 83-03A.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This dissertation is a cross-genre project that blends creative and scholarly writing to challenge the conventional modes through which academic argumentation can occurs. It looks at published and archived late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poetry about the Holocaust, analyzing not only its recollection within the American context but also the underrepresentation of the extermination that took place in the Soviet territories. The poet-scholar argues that lyric witness is a necessary compositional mode and interpretive lens for grappling with the impossibilities of witnessing and remembering the Holocaust at large, as well as addressing the particularities of the Holocaust in the East. Each chapter--"Glossary," "Sonnet," and "Translated Archive"--is an experiment in mimesis, whereby scholarly analysis adopts some of the formal and generic elements of its literary objects. The chapters focus on contemporary poetry collections by Ilya Kaminsky and Jehanne Dubrow, as well as an archive of poetic translations from Yiddish into Russian housed in the United States Holocaust Museum. The project concludes with its own archive of contemporary poetry of lyric witness related to the Holocaust.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.
- Advisors: Saint-Amour, Paul; Platt, Kevin M. F.; Committee members: Park, Josephine Nock-Hee; Hellerstein , Kathryn.
- Department: Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2021.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9798535568720
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
- This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
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