Discovering modernism : T.S. Eliot and his context / Louis Menand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menand, Louis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Eliot, T. S.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2007]

Summary:

In this book, Menand shows how T.S. Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. Menand shows how Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity--and his later repudiation of those views--reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part I: The Literary Object

1 / Literary Honesty

2 / Problems About Objects

3 / Rescuing Literature from Itself

4 / Problems About Texts

Part II: The Literary Vocation

5 / Literature and Professionalism

6 / "Poetry as Poetry"

7 / The Cultural Critic

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Credits

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-977471-4

OCLC:

958518677