T. S. Eliot: The Modernist in History

Ronald Bush (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 1991

The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 provided the salutary occasion for a fresh look at his life and work and a reassessment in light of issues raised by the various critical movements - the new historicism, feminism, reader-reception theory - that have succeeded the New Criticism, loosely subsumable under the rubric post-structuralist. The essays assembled here vary in approach, but they share a commitment to the discipline of history and an awareness that history can function as critique as well as celebration. Several contributors take issue with Eliot's self-presentation and include documents Eliot chose not to emphasise. Others address topics including the business of producing culture in twentieth-century writing, the impact of self-professed masculinist poetry on women readers and modernism's social vouchers.

• Curatore: Ronald Bush
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Anno: 1991
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 237 x 158 mm
• Peso: 565 gr.
• EAN: 9780521390743

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