Anna Veprinska
Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis
- Springer International Publishing
- 2021
- Taschenbuch
- 220 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030343224
This book examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The text argues that, recognizing both the possibilities and dangers of empathy, the poems under consideration variously invite and refuse empathy, thus displaying what Anna Veprinska terms empathetic dissonance. Veprinska proposes that empathetic dissonance reflects the texts¿ struggle with the question of the value and possibility of empathy in the face of the crises to which these texts respond. Examining poems from Charlotte Delbo, Dionne Brand, Niyi Osundare, Charles Reznikoff, Robert Fitterman, Wis¿awa Szymborska, Cynthia Hogue, Claudia Rankine, Paul Celan,
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