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Informationen zum Autor David E. Chinitz , Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, is the author of T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003) and Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes (2013). He is currently first vice president of the Modernist Studies Association and past president of the T. S. Eliot Society. Klappentext Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his life and achievement.* It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and career* It explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical* It charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot since the early 1990s* It provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century Zusammenfassung A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces a new generation of readers and educators to Eliot and covers the full breadth of his literary career. Chapters explore the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyze his body of work, and assess his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viii Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations Used for Works by T. S. Eliot xvii Part I: Influences 1 1 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life 3 Anthony Cuda 2 Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations 15 Sanford Schwartz 3 T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist City 27 Barry J. Faulk 4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism 40 Christina Hauck 5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy 53 Jewel Spears Brooker 6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture 66 David E. Chinitz 7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology 79 Marc Manganaro 8 "Where are the eagles and the trumpets?": Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development 91 Vincent Sherry Part II: Works 105 9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare 107 Jayme Stayer 10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour 120 Frances Dickey 11 Disambivalent Quatrains 133 Jeffrey M. Perl 12 "Gerontion": The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot 145 Edward Brunner 13 "Fishing, with the arid plain behind me": Difficulty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land 157 Michael Coyle 14 The Enigma of "The Hollow Men" 168 Elisabeth Däumer 15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl 179 Christine Buttram 16 "Having to construct": Dissembly Lines in the "Ariel" Poems and Ash-Wednesday 191 Tony Sharpe 17 "The inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses 204 Gareth Reeves 18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets 216 Lee Oser 19 "Away we go": Poetry and Play in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats 228 Sarah Bay-Cheng 20 Eliot's 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion 239 Randy Malamud 21 Eliot's "Divine" Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman 251 Carol H. Smith 22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927 263 Leonard D...
