T. S. Eliot and Ideology

Author Kenneth Asher argues that politics provided the intellectual framework Eliot employed throughout his career. The focus of this political dimension separates this book from previous studies of Eliot. The result is a reestimation of Eliot's view of literary history and theory and new appraisals of several major poems and plays.

List of contents

1. Historical background; 2. The French connection; 3. Orthodoxy and heresy; 4. Architect of a Christian order; 5. Visions and revisions; 6. Eliot and the new criticism; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Summary

Asher investigates the effect of politics on the work of T. S. Eliot, particularly the influence of French reactionary thinking. The result is a re-appraisal of Eliot's view of literary history and theory, and new readings of major poems and plays. Asher also discusses how Eliot's ideology altered the study of literature for subsequent generations of critics.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Asher, Kenneth (State University of New York Asher
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521627603
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62760-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 352 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies