A Companion to T. S. Eliot

Herausgegeben von Chinitz, David E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the new Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his life and achievement.

It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot s work and career
It explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical
It charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot since the early 1990s
It provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781118647097
• ISBN-10: 1118647092
• Artikelnr.: 39711175

Autorenporträt

David E. Chinitz, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, is the author of T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003) and Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes (2013). He is currently first vice president of the Modernist Studies Association and past president of the T. S. Eliot Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations
Used for Works by T. S. Eliot xvii Part I: Influences 1 1 The Poet and the
Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life 3 Anthony Cuda 2 Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition
and its Transformations 15 Sanford Schwartz 3 T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist
City 27 Barry J. Faulk 4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism 40 Christina
Hauck 5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy 53 Jewel Spears Brooker 6
A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture 66 David E. Chinitz 7 Mind,
Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology 79 Marc Manganaro 8 "Where are
the eagles and the trumpets?": Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development 91
Vincent Sherry Part II: Works 105 9 Searching for the Early Eliot:
Inventions of the March Hare 107 Jayme Stayer 10 Prufrock and Other
Observations: A Walking Tour 120 Frances Dickey 11 Disambivalent Quatrains
133 Jeffrey M. Perl 12 "Gerontion": The Mind of Postwar Europe and the
Mind(s) of Eliot 145 Edward Brunner 13 "Fishing, with the arid plain behind
me": Diffi culty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land 157 Michael Coyle 14
The Enigma of "The Hollow Men" 168 Elisabeth Däumer 15 Sweeney Agonistes: A
Sensational Snarl 179 Christine Buttram 16 "Having to construct": Dissembly
Lines in the "Ariel" Poems and Ash-Wednesday 191 Tony Sharpe 17 "The
inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses
204 Gareth Reeves 18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets 216 Lee Oser 19
"Away we go": Poetry and Play in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats 228 Sarah Bay-Cheng 20 Eliot's 1930s Plays: The
Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion 239 Randy Malamud 21
Eliot's "Divine" Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and
The Elder Statesman 251 Carol H. Smith 22 Taking Literature Seriously:
Essays to 1927 263 Leonard Diepeveen 23 He Do the Critic in Different
Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 275 Richard Badenhausen 24 In Times
of Emergency: Eliot's Social Criticism 287 John Xiros Cooper Part III:
Contexts 299 25 Eliot's Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics 301 Lawrence
Rainey 26 T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism 311 Ann Ardis 27 Confl
ict and Concealment: Eliot's Approach to Women and Gender 323 Cyrena
Pondrom 28 Eliot and "Race": Jews, Irish, and Blacks 335 Bryan Cheyette 29
"The pleasures of higher vices": Sexuality in Eliot's Work 350 Patrick
Query 30 "An occupation for the saint": Eliot as a Religious Thinker 363
Kevin J. H. Dettmar 31 Eliot's Politics 376 Michael Levenson 32 Keeping
Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of the Criterion 388 Jason
Harding 33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher 399 John Timberman Newcomb
34 Eliot and the New Critics 411 Gail McDonald 35 "T. S. Eliot rates
socko!": Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity 423 Aaron Jaffe 36 Eliot's
Critical Reception: "The quintessence of twenty-fi rst-century poetry" 436
Nancy K. Gish 37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Infl uence: The Waste
Land 449 James Longenbach Bibliography of Works by T. S. Eliot 460 Index
463

Rezensionen

"A Companion to T. S. Eliot is a necessity for any college or university library and a worthwhile investment for your personal library. You will use it and reuse it, and you'll encourage your students to do the same."
--The Newsletter of the T. S. Eliot Society

"The articles are fully informative, readable and stimulating. Students, teachers and all readers interested in literature and poetry will enjoy - and benefit from - this companion."
--Reference Reviews

"As a resource for both scholars and students [this] book is very strong, and stand-out contributions come from John Xiros Cooper, on Eliot's social critiques, and John Timberman Newcomb's reconsideration of Eliot's influence as an editor, in which he notes the sometimes overlooked role Eliot played not only in British modernism but also, with Pound, in shaping the public face of the likes of George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky, and Marianne Moore. The collection as a whole, finely edited by Chinitz, will be a necessary reference."
--The Year's Work in English Studies