Download or read book The Edge of Modernism written by Walter Kalaidjian and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-01-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores American poetry on genocide, the Holocaust, and total war, as well as on postwar social antagonisms, racial oppression, and domestic violence. Combining Psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, this account of modern poetics analyzes the ways in which literary form gives testimony to the trauma of twentieth-century history.