Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up
Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

Author: A. Booth

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-05-06

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1137482842

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A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order.

Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up
Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

Author: A. Booth

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9781349695836

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A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order.

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

Author: Matthew Hollis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2022-12-20

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0393651835

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A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. Renowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot’s enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious. In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the intellectual creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. Presenting a mosaic of historical fragments, diaries, dynamic literary criticism, and illuminating new research, he reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists—of Ezra Pound, who edited it; of Vivien Eliot, who sustained it; and of T. S. Eliot himself, whose private torment is woven into the seams of the work. The result is an unforgettable story of lives passing in opposing directions and the astounding literary legacy they would leave behind.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE WASTE LAND
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE WASTE LAND

Author: Dr. Muralikrishnan T.R.

Publisher: Co-Text Publishers

Published: 2023-08-24

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 8195225314

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One of the remarkable qualities of The Waste Land is its ability to resonate across time and space, transcending cultural and historical boundaries. As we mark its centenary, it is fitting that we take stock of the poem's continued relevance in our contemporary world. The contributors to this anthology guide us through the labyrinthine paths of The Waste Land, highlighting its capacity to speak to our own spiritual dilemmas, anxieties, and yearnings.

The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies
The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies

Author: Melissa Hardie

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2024-02-06

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0253068177

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The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released. The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation offering a magnificent representation of the array of responses generated by the film, its makers, its promoters, and its audience. A multifaceted approach to the film, its popularity, and its social relevance results in a new text for understanding normative social hierarchies of sexuality, race, and gender. The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies engages with the figurative and actual place of sex work and feminized affective labor in our society.

The Waste Land and Other Writings
The Waste Land and Other Writings

Author: T.S. Eliot

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2009-07-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307425045

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First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression." As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays. In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience.

Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts
Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts

Author: Frances Dickey

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1474405290

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From his early "e;Curtain Raiser"e; to the late Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot took an interest in all the arts, drawing on them for poetic inspiration and for analysis in his prose. T. S. Eliot and the Arts provides extensive, high quality research about his many-sided engagement with painting, sculpture, museum artefacts, architecture, music, drama, music hall, opera and dance, as well as the emerging media of recorded sound, film and radio. Building on the newly published editions of Eliot's prose and poetry, this contemporary research collection opens avenues for understanding Eliot both in his own right as a poet and critic and as a foremost exemplar of interarts modernism.