Robert F. Fleissner

T.S. Eliot and the Heritage of Africa

The Magus and the Moor as Metaphor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Magus and the Moor... explores Eliot's debt to black culture and its origins stemming from his St. Louis background, the anthropological studies made while he was a student at Harvard, and his noted artistic debt to Othello . Robert Fleissner uses these origins as a starting point, weaving in considerations of archetypal elements to create this fascinating study of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

Produktdetails

• American University Studies 143
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 61800
• Neuausg.
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780820418001
• ISBN-10: 0820418005
• Artikelnr.: 24532908

Autorenporträt

The Author: R.F. Fleissner teaches in the Department of English, Theatre, and Communication at Central State University, Wilbeforce, Ohio. He received his M.A. from The Catholic University of America in 1958 with a thesis on Dickens and his Ph.D. from New York University with a dissertation on Dickens's debt to Shakespeare as Victorians saw him. He received the first Talmadge McKinney Award for Research at central State in 1983 as well as the last in 1991. He is the author of Dickens and Shakespeare, Resolved to Love: The 1592 Edition of Henry Constable's «Diana» Critically Considered, The Prince and the Professor, A Rose by Another Name: A Survey of Literary Flora from Shakespeare to Eco, and Ascending the Prufrockian Stair: Studies in a Dissociated Sensibility (Peter Lang, 1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The book deals in detail with T.S. Eliot's legacy to an African heritage as revealed in African-American culture but basically in universal, archetypal values in general (partly in Jungian terms).

Rezensionen

"'T.S. Eliot and the Heritage of Africa' deals with an issue of current interest today and comes out in favor of Eliot's use of themes from black culture and not as revealing social prejudice. Dr. Fleissner's focus, however, is not merely upon...race itself, but concerns Eliot's overall relation to the human race by touching on numerous, farreaching facets of his central metaphor, 'the magus and the moor.'" (Lucy Kelly Hayden, Eastern Michigan University)
"A convincing case study of Eliot's intercultural awareness, 'T.S. Eliot and the Heritage of Africa' recovers earlier stages in the poet's spiritual journey well before his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism. It locates the genesis of his idea of modern 'dissociated sensibility' in his perception of the pre-logical mystical integrity of the African spirit." (Dorothy Judd Hall, Boston University)
"Robert F. Fleissner's imaginative expedition of archetypal discovery, centered around the poetry of T.S. Eliot, (is) most intricateand...most convincing." (Wilfried F. Feuser, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
"øThe book! is innovative in content, confident in tone, and never dull or monot onous. ...a critical enterprise that breaks fresh ground in Eliot scholarship." (Manju Jaidka, MELUS)
"Robert Fleissner's 'T.S. Eliot and the Heritage of Africa' is a well-timed and significant study...Fleissner's book provides a range of information on, and lea ds the reader into a largely unexplored area." (Sumana Sen-Bagchee, T.S. Eliot Society News & Notes)
"...'T.S. Eliot and the Heritage of Africa' is an invigorating study born of deep scholarship." (H.H.A.G., The Literary Half-yearly)