T.S. Eliot and our Turning World

by J. Brooker (Editor), University of London Institute of United States Studies, Jewel Spears Brooker (Other), University Of London (Other)

Overview

In T.S. Eliot and Our Turning World , fifteen scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan examine Eliot's work in the context of his personal history and that of his century. Using both unpublished and newly released primary materials, they analyse and contextualise his poetry in relation to idealist philosophy, popular culture, anti-Semitism, feminism, and literary studies. One critic surveys Eliot's impressive but previously ignored contributions to radio journalism and several consider his controversial but assured centrality in the cultural life of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333715673
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/11/2001
Edition description:	2001
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

RICHARD BADENHAUSEN Associate Professor of English, Marshall University, West Virginia
WILLIAM F. BLISSETT Professor Emeritus of English, University College, University of Toronto
WILLIAM CHARRON Professor of Philosophy, St. Louis University
DAVID CHINITZ Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University, Chicago
MICHAEL COYLE Associate Professor of English. Colgate University
PETER DICKENSON Emeritus Professor of Music of Keel University and Goldsmiths College, University of London
RUDOLF GERMER Retired, previously Chair of English Literature at Cologne
DAVID GERVAIS Honorary Fellow in English, Reading University
TERESA GIBERT Professor of English, Spanish National University, Madrid
RANDY MALAMUD Associate Professor of English, Georgia State University
STEPHEN MEDCALF Reader in English, University of Sussex

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.S.Brooker ELIOT AND INNOCENCE/EXPERIENCE Eliot and the Reality of Childhood; M.Thormählen 'The Journey of the Magi' in the Context of Eliot's Religious Development; R.Germer ELIOT AND PHILOSOPHY Eliot and Heraclitus; W.Blissett Eliot's Reports on Kant: Reading the First and Second Critiques; J.S.Brooker & W.Charron Points of View, Objects, and Half-Objects: Eliot's Poetry at Merton College; S.Medcalf Buddhist Epistemology in T.S. Eliot's Theory of Poetry; T.Murata ELIOT AND THE OTHER ARTS Connections between Eliot and Major Composers: Stravinsky and Britten; P.Dickinson Shakespeare/Dante and Water/Music in The Waste Land; R.Malamud Eliot's Shakespeare and Eliot's Dante; D.Gervais ELIOT AND POPULAR CULTURE The Problem of Dullness: Eliot and the 'Lively Arts' in the 1920s; D.Chinitz Eliot on the Air: 'Culture' and the Challenges of Mass Communication; M.Coyle ELIOT AND ANTI-SEMITISM Eliot in the Dock; J.S.Brooker T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and the Weight of Apologia; D.M.Thompson ELIOT AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Rethinking 'Great Tom': T.S. Eliot and the Collaborative Impulse; R.Badenhausen T.S. Eliot and the Feminist Revision of the Modern(ist) Canon; T.Gibert APPENDIX T.S.Eliot's Radio Broadcasts, 1929-1963: A Chronological Checklist Works Consulted Index

Editorial Reviews

Scholars from North America, Europe, and Japan examine US poet Eliot's (1888-1965) work in the context of his personal history and the history of the 20th century. They draw on both unpublished and on newly released primary materials to analyze and contextualize his poetry in relation to idealist philosophy, popular culture, anti-Semitism, feminism, and literary studies. Most of the 15 essays originated as lectures an a 1996 conference in London. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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