After Auschwitz: Adorno, postmodernism, and the anti-aesthetic
TitleAfter Auschwitz: Adorno, postmodernism, and the anti-aesthetic
Author
Call number700.458405318/0001
Object number09103L
Place of publicationHeidelberg, Germany
PublisherUniversitatsverlag Winter
Year of publication
2010
Physical descriptionpp205-225
MaterialArticle
Series titleAmerican studies ; v. 189
ISBN9783825357344
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust, art, and taboo : transatlantic exchanges on the ethics and aesthetics of representation' pp205-225
Description
Gross traces the impact of Adorno's famous dictum that "after Auschwitz it has become impossible to write poetry" on two of the most influential theories of post modernism. He then critically explores the substantiation of 'traumatic realism' in two different texts
