The Cambridge companion to The waste land /
T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is often considered to be the most important poem written in English in the twentieth century. The poem dramatically shattered old patterns of form and style, proposed a new paradigm for poetry and poetic thought, demanded recognition from all literary quarters and...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Gabrielle McIntire
- 1. 'The world has seen strange revolutions since I died': The Waste Land and the Great War / Jean-Michel Rabaté
- 2. Geographies of space: mapping and reading the cityscape / Spencer Morrison
- 3. 'Mixing/memory and desire': what Eliot's biography can tell us / Lyndall Gordon
- 4. Religions east and west in The Waste Land / Barry Spurr
- 5. Popular culture / David E. Chinitz and Julia E. Daniel
- 6. Form, voice, and the avant-garde / Michael Levenson
- 7. Dialectical collaboration: editing The Waste Land / Jewel Spears Brooker
- 8. Doing tradition in different voices: pastiche in The Waste Land / Michael Coyle
- 9. Gender and obscenity in The Waste Land / Rachel Potter
- 10. Trauma and violence in The Waste Land / Richard Badenhausen
- 11. Psychology, psychoanalysis, and new subjectivities / Eve Sorum
- 12. The Waste Land as ecocritique / Gabrielle McIntire
- Coda: The Waste Land's afterlife: the poem's reception in the twentieth century and beyond / Tony Cuda.