Ebook: T.S. Eliot and the failure to connect : satire on modern misunderstandings
Author: Atkis G. Douglas
- Tags: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Medieval Literature, Literary Theory
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- City: Basingstoke
- Language: English
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This stimulating and provocative book focuses on the failure to connect that T.S. Eliot saw setting in during the seventeenth century. With special attention to "The Waste Land" and 'Gerontion, ' G. Douglas Atkins shows that Eliot roundly satirized modern misunderstandings and urges readers to make the connections that the "wastelanders" fail to make. Thus, a new approach to reading Eliot opens up, based on Read more...
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Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and Read more...
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