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Author Biography: Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature, The Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets, Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, and Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation, as well as many articles on various aspects of twentieth-century literature.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781537444369 |
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Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
Publication date: | 09/02/2016 |
Pages: | 26 |
Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.05(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Biographical Sketch 14
The Story Behind the Story 19
List of Characters 22
Summary and Analysis 26
Critical Views 53
Eleanor Cook on Maps of The Waste Land 53
Louis Menand on Nineteenth Century Style 57
Sandra M. Gilbert on Eliot's Mourning of a Friend 68
Michael Levenson on Eliot's Views of Postwar London 74
Juan A. Suarez on the Meaning of the Gramophone 85
Shawn R. Tucker on Anxiety in The Waste Land 89
Thomas Dilworth on Sex Between the Typist and the Young Man 94
Camelia Elias and Bent Soerensen on the Influence of Ovid 97
Works by T.S. Eliot 101
Annotated Bibliography 103
Contributors 105
Acknowledgments 108
Index 110
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The Waste Land remains the best manifesto of modernism in poetry a triumph of concision, eloquence, colloquialism, symbolism, cinematic cutting, collage of existing literature as well as popular song, all in the service of a kind of purgatorial philosophy, civilization was decaying, man was growing impotent, salvation lay in the injunctions of a Sanskrit Upanishad: "Give, sympathize, control." (Anthony Burgess, from One Man's Chorus)