Description
Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolomé de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Trauma 3. The Literary and the Other 4. Trauma in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries 5. Travel, Alterity, and Culture 6. Violence, War, and Poetry 7. Representing the Great War 8. Poetry and the First World War 9. Poetry and the Second World War 10. Voices from the Holocaust 11. Conclusion
