T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

Klappentext This study re-establishes the public dimension of Eliot's career and evaluates his deliberate political agenda. Zusammenfassung Criticism of Eliot interprets his work as the private record of an internal spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper re-establishes the public dimension Eliot intended for his poetry. Eliot aimed to reinforce established social structures during a period of painful political transition. This study offers a reinterpretation of Eliot! his work and of Anglo-American relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ash-Wednesday and the transition to the late candour; 2. Provisional delusions: crisis among the mandarins; 3. The society of the mandarin verse play; 4. Representing Four Quartets: the canonizers at work; 5. Four Quartets: the poem proper i. Burnt children ii. Rehearsing renunciation iii. Escape from history; 6. White mythology: the comedy of manners in Natopolis; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: John Xiros Cooper, John Xiros (University of British Columbia Cooper, John Xiros Cooper
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521060912
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06091-2
• No. of pages: 252
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies