T.S. Eliot and the concept of tradition / edited by Giovanni Cianci and Jason Harding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cianci, Giovanni.

Harding, Jason

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation.

Eliot, T. S.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Influence.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--20th century.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

History.

Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Canon (Literature).

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

A reappraisal of the afterlife of Eliot??'s reformulation of the idea of literary tradition.

Contents:

Exorcising the demon of chronology: T.S. Eliot's reinvention of tradition / Aleida Assmann

Proper frontiers: transgression and the individual talent / Stan Smith

Writing the self: dialectic and impersonality in T.S. Eliot / Jewel Spears Brooker

The later fortunes of impersonality: 'tradition and the individual talent' and postwar poetry / Clive Wilmer

French influences and echoes in 'tradition and the individual talent' / Bernard Brugière

Tradition and egoism: T.S. Eliot and The egoist / Jason Harding

Tradition in 1919: Pound, Eliot and the 'historical method' / Massimo Bacigalupo

Reading T.S. Eliot visually: tradition in the context of modernist art / Giovanni Cianci

Some art-historical contexts for 'tradition and the individual talent' / Michael Hollington

'A living whole': from T.S. Eliot's tradition to Hans Blumenberg's work on myth / Claudia Corti

Whose tradition?: T.S. Eliot and the text of anthropology / Caroline Patey

Duchamp's Eliot: the detours of tradition and the persistence of individual talent / Marjorie Perloff

Tradition and the march of literature: T.S. Eliot and Ford Madox Ford / Max Saunders

At the frontiers of metaphysics: time and history in T.S. Eliot and Walter Benjamin / Brett Neilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780521880022

0521880025

OCLC:

122291777

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