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Companion to T. S. Eliot [Pehme köide]

Edited by (Loyola University Chicago)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 512 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 246x173x24 mm, kaal: 780 g
  • Sari: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2014
  • Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1118647092
  • ISBN-13: 9781118647097
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 512 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 246x173x24 mm, kaal: 780 g
  • Sari: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2014
  • Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1118647092
  • ISBN-13: 9781118647097
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"Introduces a new generation of readers and educators to T. S. Eliot by compiling the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarship available of his work and career"--

"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 "--

Examining Eliot's works and career provides a comprehensive collection of essays, exploring the forces that shaped Eliot.

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
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xvi
Abbreviations Used for Works xvii
T.S. Eliot
Part I: Influences 1(104)
1 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life
3(12)
Anthony Cuda
2 Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations
15(12)
Sanford Schwartz
3 T.S. Eliot and the Symbolist City
27(13)
Barry J. Faulk
4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism
40(13)
Christina Hauck
5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy
53(13)
Jewel Spears Brooker
6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture
66(13)
David E. Chinitz
7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology
79(12)
Marc Manganaro
8 "Where are the eagles and the trumpets?": Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development
91(14)
Vincent Sherry
Part II: Works 105(194)
9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare
107(13)
Jayme Stayer
10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour
120(13)
Frances Dickey
11 Disambivalent Quatrains
133(12)
Jeffrey M. Pen
12 "Gerontion": The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot
145(12)
Edward Brunner
13 "Fishing, with the arid plain behind me": Difficulty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land
157(11)
Michael Coyle
14 The Enigma of "The Hollow Men"
168(11)
Elisabeth Dilumer
15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl
179(12)
Christine Buttram
16 "Having to construct": Dissembly Lines in the "Ariel" Poems and Ash-Wednesday
191(13)
Tony Sharpe
17 "The inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses
204(12)
Gareth Reeves
18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets
216(12)
Lee Oser
19 "Away we go": Poetry and Play in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats
228(11)
Sarah Bay-Cheng
20 Eliot's 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion
239(12)
Randy Malamud
21 Eliot's "Divine" Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman
251(12)
Carol H. Smith
22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927
263(12)
Leonard Diepeveen
23 He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927
275(12)
Richard Badenhausen
24 In Times of Emergency: Eliot's Social Criticism
287(12)
John Xiros Cooper
Part III: Contexts 299(161)
25 Eliot's Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics
301(10)
Lawrence Rainey
26 T.S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism
311(12)
Ann Ardis
27 Conflict and Concealment: Eliot's Approach to Women and Gender
323(12)
Cyrena Pondrom
28 Eliot and "Race": Jews, Irish, and Blacks
335(15)
Bryan Cheyette
29 "The pleasures of higher vices": Sexuality in Eliot's Work
350(13)
Patrick Query
30 "An occupation for the saint": Eliot as a Religious Thinker
363(13)
Kevin J.H. Dettmar
31 Eliot's Politics
376(12)
Michael Levenson
32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of the Criterion
388(11)
Jason Harding
33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher
399(12)
John Timberman Newcomb
34 Eliot and the New Critics
411(12)
Gail McDonald
35 T.S. Eliot rates sotkor: Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity
423(13)
Aaron Jaffe
36 Eliot's Critical Reception: "The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry"
436(13)
Nancy K Gish
37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Influence: The Waste Land
449(11)
James Longenbach
Bibliography of Works 460(3)
T.S. Eliot
Index 463
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.