Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land

This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land that will be invaluable to scholars, students, and general readers.

List of contents

1. 'The world has seen strange revolutions since I died': The Waste Land and the Great War Jean-Michel Rabaté; 2. Geographies of space: mapping and reading the cityscape Spencer Morrison; 3. 'Mixing/memory and desire': what Eliot's biography can tell us Lyndall Gordon; 4. Religions east and west in The Waste Land Barry Spurr; 5. Popular culture in The Waste Land David E. Chinitz and Julia E. Daniel; 6. Form, voice, and the avant-garde Michael Levenson; 7. Dialectical collaboration: editing The Waste Land Jewel Spears Brooker; 8. Doing tradition in different voices: pastiche in The Waste Land Michael Coyle; 9. Gender and obscenity in The Waste Land Rachel Potter; 10. Trauma and violence in The Waste Land Richard Badenhausen; 11. Psychology, psychoanalysis, and new subjectives in The Waste Land Eve Sorum; 12. The Waste Land as ecocritique Gabrielle McIntire; Coda: The Waste Land's afterlife: the poem's reception in the twentieth century and beyond Tony Cuda.

About the author

Gabrielle McIntire is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Queen's University, Ontario. She is the author of Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf (2008) and has published articles on T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Nella Larsen and others in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, Narrative, and Callaloo. McIntire has also published poetry internationally and sits on the editorial board of Twentieth-Century Literature.

Summary

This Companion is the first to be dedicated to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, offering fifteen new essays from a team of international scholars. Written in a style that is both sophisticated and accessible, these fresh critical perspectives will serve as an invaluable guide for scholars, students, and general readers alike.

Product details

• Authors: Gabrielle Mcintire, Gabrielle (Queen''''s University Mcintire
• Assisted by: Gabrielle Mcintire (Editor), McIntire Gabrielle (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9781107050679
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05067-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Irland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets