Chinitz A Companion to T. S. Eliot

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5604-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed inrecent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new'Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of hisworks and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh andfully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays onhis life and achievement.
* It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatmentavailable of Eliot's work and career
* It explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writerand thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre ina variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, andphilosophical
* It charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot sincethe early 1990s
* It provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, andcritic who continues to define the literary landscape of the lastcentury

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chinitz, David E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 andEliot's Development 91
Vincent Sherry
Part II: Works 105
9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the MarchHare 107
Jayme Stayer
10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour120
Frances Dickey
11 Disambivalent Quatrains 133
Jeffrey M. Perl
12 "Gerontion": The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) ofEliot 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" Poemsand Ash-Wednesday 191
Tony Sharpe
17 "The inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, MinorPoems, 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 ofPractical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats 228
Sarah Bay-Cheng
20 Eliot's 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in theCathedral, and The Family Reunion 239
Randy Malamud
21 Eliot's "Divine" Comedies: The Cocktail Party, TheConfidential 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 Essaysafter 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 Womenand 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 Work350
Patrick Query
30 "An occupation for the saint": Eliot as a Religious Thinker363
Kevin J. H. Dettmar
31 Eliot's Politics 376
Michael Levenson
32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of theCriterion 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, andCelebrity 423
Aaron Jaffe
36 Eliot's Critical Reception: "The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry" 436
Nancy K. Gish
37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Infl uence: The WasteLand 449
James Longenbach
Bibliography of Works by T. S. Eliot 460
Index 463

Über Autor(innen)

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.