| T. S. Eliot the Waste Land Contributor(s): Selby, Nick (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231124244 ISBN-13: 9780231124249 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: "The Waste Land" (1922) is widely recognized as a central text of modernism and is often described as the most important poem of the twentieth century. This guide begins with early reviews and discussions from the 1920s and '30s, considered alongside Eliot's own critical essays, showing how he set the critical terms by which his poem has been read. Examining the ways in which the poem became accepted as a literary classic, the guide then looks at New Critical and Formalist readings. The final chapters examine "deconstructive" readings that challenge "The Waste Land"'s assumed cultural power by looking at it in light of Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytical, and cultural materialist reading practices. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 821.912 |
| LCCN: 2001042378 |
| Series: Columbia Critical Guides |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.48" W x 8.11" (0.64 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Selby (American studies, U. of Wales, Swansea) considers the critical history of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land . Selby contends that the poem is a crucial document that marks and produces a change in sensibility from unity of thought to a modern even postmodern apprehension of the plurality of exper |