T.S. Elliot's "The Waste Land."
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781315504858
Subjects: Poetry; Waste land (Eliot, T. S.)
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."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Contexts --; title: chapter Historical and Cultural Context  -- Gareth Reeves; title: chapter Critical Reception  -- Gareth Reeves; title: chapter Theoretical Perspectives  -- Gareth Reeves; title: part, II The Waste Land A Reading of the Text --; title: chapter I 'The Burial of the Dead'  -- Gareth Reeves; title: chapter II 'A Game of Chess'  -- Gareth Reeves; title: chapter III 'The Fire Sermon'  -- Gareth Reeves; title: chapter IV 'Death by Water'  -- Gareth Reeves; title: chapter V 'What the Thunder said' -- Gareth Reeves.