The Cambridge companion to The Waste Land / edited by Gabrielle McIntire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McIntire, Gabrielle, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Eliot, T. S.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is often considered to be the most important poem written in English in the twentieth century. The poem dramatically shattered old patterns of form and style, proposed a new paradigm for poetry and poetic thought, demanded recognition from all literary quarters, and changed the ways in which it was possible to approach, read, or write poetry. The Waste Land helped to define the literary and artistic period known as modernism. This Companion is the first to be dedicated to the work as a whole, offering fifteen new essays by international scholars and covering an extensive range of topics. Written in a style that is at once sophisticated and accessible, these fresh critical perspectives will serve as an invaluable guide for scholars, students, and general readers alike.

Contents:

Introduction / Gabrielle McIntire

1. 'The world has seen strange revolutions since I died': The Waste Land and the Great War / Jean-Michel Rabaté

2. Geographies of space: mapping and reading the cityscape / Spencer Morrison

3. 'Mixing/memory and desire': what Eliot's biography can tell us / Lyndall Gordon

4. Religions east and west in The Waste Land / Barry Spurr

5. Popular culture / David E. Chinitz and Julia E. Daniel

6. Form, voice, and the avant-garde / Michael Levenson

7. Dialectical collaboration: editing The Waste Land / Jewel Spears Brooker

8. Doing tradition in different voices: pastiche in The Waste Land / Michael Coyle

9. Gender and obscenity in The Waste Land / Rachel Potter

10. Trauma and violence in The Waste Land / Richard Badenhausen

11. Psychology, psychoanalysis, and new subjectivities / Eve Sorum

12. The Waste Land as ecocritique / Gabrielle McIntire

Coda: The Waste Land's afterlife: the poem's reception in the twentieth century and beyond / Tony Cuda.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781316407110

131640711X

9781316407523

1316407527

9781107279612

1107279615

OCLC:

922788570