Notes on Contributors |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Abbreviations Used for Works |
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Part I: Influences |
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1 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life |
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2 Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations |
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15 | (12) |
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3 T.S. Eliot and the Symbolist City |
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27 | (13) |
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4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism |
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40 | (13) |
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5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy |
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53 | (13) |
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6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture |
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66 | (13) |
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7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology |
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79 | (12) |
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8 "Where are the eagles and the trumpets?": Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development |
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91 | (14) |
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Part II: Works |
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105 | (194) |
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9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare |
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107 | (13) |
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10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour |
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120 | (13) |
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11 Disambivalent Quatrains |
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133 | (12) |
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12 "Gerontion": The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot |
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145 | (12) |
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13 "Fishing, with the arid plain behind me": Difficulty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land |
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157 | (11) |
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14 The Enigma of "The Hollow Men" |
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168 | (11) |
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15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl |
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179 | (12) |
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16 "Having to construct": Dissembly Lines in the "Ariel" Poems and Ash-Wednesday |
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191 | (13) |
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17 "The inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses |
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204 | (12) |
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18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets |
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216 | (12) |
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19 "Away we go": Poetry and Play in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats |
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228 | (11) |
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20 Eliot's 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion |
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239 | (12) |
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21 Eliot's "Divine" Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman |
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251 | (12) |
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22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927 |
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263 | (12) |
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23 He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 |
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275 | (12) |
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24 In Times of Emergency: Eliot's Social Criticism |
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287 | (12) |
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Part III: Contexts |
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299 | (161) |
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25 Eliot's Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics |
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301 | (10) |
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26 T.S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism |
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311 | (12) |
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27 Conflict and Concealment: Eliot's Approach to Women and Gender |
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323 | (12) |
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28 Eliot and "Race": Jews, Irish, and Blacks |
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335 | (15) |
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29 "The pleasures of higher vices": Sexuality in Eliot's Work |
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350 | (13) |
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30 "An occupation for the saint": Eliot as a Religious Thinker |
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363 | (13) |
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376 | (12) |
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32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of the Criterion |
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388 | (11) |
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33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher |
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399 | (12) |
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34 Eliot and the New Critics |
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411 | (12) |
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35 T.S. Eliot rates sotkor: Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity |
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423 | (13) |
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36 Eliot's Critical Reception: "The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry" |
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436 | (13) |
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37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Influence: The Waste Land |
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449 | (11) |
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Bibliography of Works |
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460 | (3) |
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Index |
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