The Poetics of Otherness

Jonathan Hart is a poet, critic, historian, and prolific author. His books include Theater and World, Breath and Dust, Representing the New World, Empires and Colonies, Musing, Dreamwork, and From Shakespeare to Obama. He has held appointments and visiting appointments at Toronto, Cambridge, Alberta, the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), Princeton, Harvard, among others.

1. Introduction 2. Trauma 3. The Literary and the Other 4. Trauma in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries 5. Travel, Alterity, and Culture 6. Violence, War, and Poetry 7. Representing the Great War 8. Poetry and the First World War 9. Poetry and the Second World War 10. Voices from the Holocaust 11. Conclusion