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Disarchiving anguish : Charles Reznikoff and the modalities of witnessing / Jacek Partyka.
Van Pelt Library PS3535.E98 Z58 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partyka, Jacek, author.
- Series:
- New Americanists in Poland ; v. 14.
- New Americanists in Poland ; Volume 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976--Criticism and interpretation.
- Reznikoff, Charles.
- Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 261 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Peter Lang, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Objectivist, the Archivist, the Witness and the Author
- Reznikoff as the Objectivist
- The Archive
- The Experience, or "Life Consists of Retellings"
- The Testimony
- The Author-Witness, or The Witness-Author
- Yet Another "Unoriginal Genius": A Missing Element in Marjorie Perloff's Formulation of "Poetry by Other Means"
- Walter Benjamin's Concept of (Writing) History
- Disarchiving Anguish
- ch. 2 Witnessing in the First and Second Degree
- I. Walking, Witnessing, Writing: Urban Poetry
- Witnessing in the First Degree
- The Primacy of Seeing
- "Familiar and Yet Strange": The Experience of Exile
- II. Family Chronicle
- "To Remember, We Need Others"
- Translated but Not Lost
- Immigrant Narrative Beside a Familiar Literary Category
- Text(ile) Matters
- Legal(istic) Matters: Law and Justice
- ch. 3 The Archival Finders Keepers: Testimony (1934) and Testimony. The United States (18851915): Recitative
- A Non-Teleological Epic Project
- "My Country 'Tis of Thee"
- Testimony (1934)
- "Pretty Nearly Everything"
- Witnessing Race Relations: Law vs. Justice
- Formal Aspects of Testimony (1934)
- Testimony as Recitative
- Witnessing, Testifying, and the Problem of Language
- The Quotient of Objectivism: from the Deposition to the Recitative. An Analysis of Particular Cases
- Elegy. The Unhealed Wounds of the Past
- Law and Justice: Systemic Violence
- The Shattered Glass Inside the Case
- ch. 4 Depoliticizing the Genocide: Holocaust
- Juridical Prerogatives and Political Agendas
- Peter Weiss's Appropriation of Documents
- The Modalities of Witnessing in Holocaust
- KurtGerstein
- ZMa Lubetkin
- Shimon Srebrnik and Rivka Yosselevska
- ch. 5 Reznikoff's "Unoriginal Genius" and the Tradition of Performing Witness
- Palimpsest/Palimtext
- Socially Engaged Poetry of Muriel Rukeyser and Mark Nowak
- Vanessa Place, Kenneth Goldsmith and the Boundaries of Conceptual Witnessing
- Testimony Reactivated: Ann Hamilton and Tim Clifford
- Heimrad Backer's and Robert Fitterman's Take on the Holocaust
- Holocaust and Hello Kitty.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: Partyka, Jacek. Disarchiving Anguish.
- ISBN:
- 9783631831755
- 3631831757
- OCLC:
- 1295108514
- Publisher Number:
- 99993271924
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