The Edinburgh companion to T. S. Eliot and the arts / edited by Frances Dickey and John D. Morgenstern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickey, Frances, Author.

Contributor:

Dickey, Frances, 1970- editor.

Morgenstern, John D. (John David), 1980- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature.

Edinburgh Companions to Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Eliot, T. S.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages, 12 pages of plates) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Original and probing new scholarship on T. S. Eliot’s engagement with the visual and performance artsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9781474405287','ISBN:9781474405294','ISBN:9781474405300']);From his early “Curtain Raiser” to the late Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot took an interest in all the arts, drawing on them for poetic inspiration and for analysis in his prose. T. S. Eliot and the Arts provides extensive, high quality research about his many-sided engagement with painting, sculpture, museum artefacts, architecture, music, drama, music hall, opera and dance, as well as the emerging media of recorded sound, film and radio. Building on the newly published editions of Eliot’s prose and poetry, this contemporary research collection opens avenues for understanding Eliot both in his own right as a poet and critic and as a foremost exemplar of interarts modernism.Key FeaturesGathers cutting-edge scholarship on a wide range of arts, emphasising the interconnection of the arts in Eliot’s work and in modernism generallyAppears at a time when Eliot has been, and will continue to be, much in the news and closely studied because of the publication of his letters, collected poems and proseHailing from the UK, US, Continental Europe and India, the contributors to this volume have recently published significant books on modernism and the arts, shaping the fields that they here develop with respect to Eliot Interart studies is a new and rapidly growing field, particularly in music and dance"

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Works by T. S. Eliot

Preface

Editors’ Note

Part I: Eliot and the Visual Arts

Introduction

1 Eliot in the Asian Wing

2 The Modern Bacchanal: Eliot and Matisse

3 Eliot and Italian Painting

4 Eliot, Architecture, and Historic Preservation

Part II: Eliot and the Performance Arts

5 The Musical World of Eliot’s Inventions

6 Wagner in The Waste Land

7 Hearing History: Eliot’s Rite of Spring

8 Beauty Is in the Ear of the Beholder: Eliot, Armstrong, and Ellison

9 The Music of Four Quartets

10 Eliot and the Music-Hall Comedian

11 Evenings at the Phoenix Society: Eliot and the Independent London Theatre

12 Eliot and Dance

Part III: Eliot and Media

13 Eliot and the Idea of “Media”

14 Eliot and the Art of the Phonograph

15 Eliot’s Radio Times; or, Listen with Possum

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474405300

1474405304

9781474405294

1474405290

OCLC:

1301546980