The Edge of Modernism - American Poetry and the Traumatic Past - Hardback - 2006

Explores American poetry on genocide, the Holocaust, and total war, as well as on postwar social antagonisms, racial oppression, and domestic violence. Combining Psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, this account of modern poetics analyzes the ways in which literary form gives testimony to the trauma of twentiethcentury history.
Year of publication: 2006
Pagination: 256 pages, 2 black white line drawings
Format: Hardback