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  title info:
    title: T.S. Eliot and the cultural divide
  name:
    name part: Chinitz, David.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 264 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "The modernist poet T.S. Eliot has been applauded and denounced for decades as a staunch champion of high art and an implacable opponent of popular culture. But Eliot's elitism was never what it seemed. T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide refurbishes this great writer for the twenty-first century, presenting him as the complex figure he was, an artist attentive not only to literature but to detective fiction, vaudeville theater, jazz, and the songs of Tin Pan Alley." "David Chinitz argues that Eliot was productively engaged with popular culture in some form at every stage of his career, and that his response to it, as expressed in his poetry, plays, and essays, was ambivalent rather than hostile. He shows that American jazz, for example, was a major influence on Eliot's poetry during its maturation. He discusses Eliot's surprisingly persistent interest in culture both in such famous works as The Waste Land and in such lesser-known pieces as Sweeney Agonistes. And he traces Eliot's long, quixotic struggle to close the widening gap between high art and popular culture through a new type of public art: contemporary popular verse drama." "What results is a work that will persuade adherents and detractors alike to return to Eliot and find in him a writer who liked a good show, a good thriller, and a good tune, as well as a "great" poem."--Jacket.
  table of contents: A jazz-banjorine -- The dull and the lively -- Backstage with Marie Lloyd -- Sweeney bound and unbound -- "Immortal for a while" : the verse plays -- The T.S. Eliot identity crisis.
  note: David E. Chinitz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
      name part: 1888-1965
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Popular culture in literature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
      name part: 1888-1965
    topic: Critique et interprétation
  subject:
    topic: Culture populaire dans la littérature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
      name part: 1888-1965
  subject:
    topic: Popular culture in literature
  classification: PS3509.L43 Z64926 2003
  classification: 821/.912
  classification: 18.05
  identifier: 0226104478
  identifier: 9780226104478
  identifier: 2002155085
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 021209
    record change date: 20170928135535.0
    record identifier: in00003595522
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng