T. S. Elliot's The Waste Land Contributor(s): Reeves, Gareth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745007384 ISBN-13: 9780745007380 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $63.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1994 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.912 |
LCCN: 95213669 |
Series: Critical Studies of Key Texts |
Physical Information: 0.29" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.30 lbs) 134 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This work argues that although The Waste Land demands close reading, the spirit of the old New Criticism works with inappropriate assumptions about unity and closed form. Many critics have tried to fix the text, to find hidden narratives and plots, spiritual guests and allegories of salvation. Instead, this reading sees the poem as resolutely open-ended, supporting this view with recent developments in Reader-Response criticism and Reception Theory. The study focuses on the way poetry sounds (or does not sound, cannot be sounded). It concentrates on syntax, lineation and intonation. It also brings out the presence of the muted voices of wronged women in a work often called misogynistic. |