T. S. Eliot - The Modernist in History

Klappentext The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 provided the salutary occasion for a fresh look at his life and work. Zusammenfassung The essays assembled here vary in approach! but they share a commitment to the discipline of history and an awareness that history can function as critique as well as celebration. Several contributors take issue with Eliot's self-presentation and include documents Eliot chose not to emphasise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Ronald Bush; Part I. Eliot's Women/Women's Eliot: 1. Eliot and women Lyndall Gordon; 2. Gender, voice and figuration in Eliot's early poetry Carol Christ; Part II. Ara Vos Prec: 3. Eliot's negotiation of satire and suffering James Longenbach; 4. The Waste Land and Eliot's poetry notebook John T. Mayer; 5. The price of Modernism: publishing The Waste Land Lawrence Rainey; Part III. Eliot and the Practice of Twentieth-Century Poetry: 6. The allusive poet: Eliot and his sources A. Walton Litz; 7. Forms of simultaneity in The Waste Land and Burnt Norton Alan Williamson; Part IV. The History and Future of Modernism: 8. Eliot, Lukacs and the politics of Modernism Michael North; 9. T. S. Eliot and Modernism at the present time: a provocation Ronald Bush; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Bush
• Assisted by: Ronald Bush (Editor), Bush Ronald (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521105286
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10528-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies