Engaging the Shoah through the Poetry of Dan Pagis: Memory and Metaphor

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In the field of Holocaust Studies, there has been a great deal written in English about poets such as Paul Celan, but Dan Pagiss body of work remains largely undiscovered. By analyzing the Holocaust poetry of Dan Pagis and correlating it to his biography through the identifying tropes of Pagiss literature, this book seeks to reveal that the speakers of Pagis poems embody a resistance to traditional historical, temporal, and structural narratives while also outlining the scarring effects of trauma continually revisited through poetic engagement. Beyond this, the secondary aim of this book is to bring Pagiss work to light for an audience that solely reads and speaks English.

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This book offers McCulloughs path-breaking study of Dan Pagis philosophical-literary poetry. She discusses and explicates Pagis reaction to the trauma of the Holocaust and analyzes in depth the poets difficult yet powerful lyrical approach, demonstrating both his concepts of the limits of representation and the end of the Jewish people after the Holocaust. -- Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, University of Texas at Dallas

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Shellie Gordon McCullough is lecturer of humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas.