Trauma in Lyric: A National Reading of 20th Century Postwar Lyric
Muenchrath, Anna
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2012-04-17
Abstract
Grounded in postwar German and British poetry, this thesis explores the dynamic tension between the historicity located in poetic language and the trans-temporality of the identification mechanism facilitated by the lyrical “I” in order to theorize lyric as a medium for communicating national trauma.