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  1. Bilingual autobiographical poetry of Henry Beissel
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Lausanne

    "The book is the first academic study of Henry Beissel's bilingual poetic autobiography. The Canadian poet going back through memories to his childhood in Nazi Germany, wrote a long poem in English and reinterpreted it in German - his mother tongue,... more

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2024 A 28469
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
    2024/5022
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    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
    NX 215.600
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    "The book is the first academic study of Henry Beissel's bilingual poetic autobiography. The Canadian poet going back through memories to his childhood in Nazi Germany, wrote a long poem in English and reinterpreted it in German - his mother tongue, neglected for decades. The study offers a comparative reading of the two distinctly different versions of the poem, juxtaposing various perspectives, voices and recollections. Beissel's bilingual project is depicted as "memory workshop", that mediates between cultures. The work examines Beissel's biography and the theories of memory, autobiography and bilingualism. It refers to metafiction, the poetic child's figure and writing trauma, as well as explores poetic complexities of memory and identity"--

     

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783631898826
    RVK Categories: HQ 5999
    Series: Transatlantic studies in British and North American culture ; volume 41
    Subjects: Literary criticism
    Other subjects: Beissel, Henry: Coming to terms with a child
    Scope: 175 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references

  2. Bilingual autobiographical poetry of Henry Beissel