Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism) – PDF

Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis, (PDF) examines the illustration of empathy in up to date poetry after the disaster, significantly poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001, terrorist assaults, and Hurricane Katrina. The ebook argues that, figuring out each the chances and risks of empathy, the poems into consideration variously invite and refuse empathy, thus exhibiting what Anna Veprinska phrases empathetic dissonance. Veprinska affords that empathetic dissonance displays the texts’ battle with the query of the worth and risk of empathy in the face of the crises to which these texts reply. Studying poems from Charlotte Delbo, Dionne Brand, Charles Reznikoff, Niyi Osundare, Robert Fitterman, Wisława Szymborska, Claudia Rankine, Paul Celan, Cynthia Hogue, Dan Pagis, Lucille Clifton, and Katie Ford, amongst others, Veprinska research empathetic dissonance by way of language, witnessing, and theology. Combining comparative shut readings with interdisciplinary concept from philosophy, psychology, historical past and literary concept, cultural concept, and trauma research, this ebook juxtaposes a genocide, a terrorist act, and a pure catastrophe intensified by racial politics and human disregard in order to contemplate what occurs to empathy in poetry after occasions on the limits of empathy. NOTE: The product only contains the ebook, Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis in PDF. No access codes are included.