Representation of Old Truths in T.s. Eliot''s New Verse - Language, Hermeneutics, and Ancient Truth in 'New Verse'

Informationen zum Autor G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, USA, where he taught for 44 years. The winner of several awards for outstanding teaching, he is the author of twenty-two books and co-editor of three others, many of them published by Palgrave Macmillan. He now lives in Greenville, SC, and continues to write. Klappentext Continuing his explorations of T. S. Eliot's most captivating yet difficult works, G. Douglas Atkins' new and insightful book takes on the question of Eliot and hermeneutics: understanding and being understood, putting-in-other-words, and, in Eliot's own words, 'restoring/ With a new verse the ancient rhyme.' This perspective opens new paths towards the elucidation of Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets , in particular. Addressed to both the specialist and the non-specialist, the close, meditative readings that form the center of this engaging book mirror its subject, capturing an instance of the 'impossible union' of differences and opposites that lay at the heart of Eliot's Incarnational understanding. Zusammenfassung Written for both specialist and non-specialist, this book examines T. S. Eliot's treatments of putting-in-other-words, including the necessity of putting ancient truth in 'new verse.' By means of fresh new readings of Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets, G. Douglas Atkins carries his exploration of Eliot's religious thinking into bold new territory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introductory Essay: True Wit and 'the Really New' 2. In Other Words, Death by Water, or 'The Burial of the Dead': The New Verse of The Waste Land 3. The Word and Other Words: Ash-Wednesday: Six Poems 4. Restored in the New Verse of Four Quartets: The 'Ancient Rhyme' of Incarnation 5. A Short Essay concerning Literary Knowledge Bibliography

Produktdetails

• Autoren: G Douglas Atkins, G. Douglas Atkins
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.12.2015
• EAN: 9781137590572
• ISBN: 978-1-137-59057-2
• Seiten: 100
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; C, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Poetry and Poetics, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, America—Literatures, North American Literature, bibliography;death;knowledge;poem;quartet;truth;water