T. S. Eliot and Ideology
T. S. Eliot and Ideology

Author: Kenneth Asher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780521627603

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Setting out to demonstrate the effect of politics on the work of T. S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot and Ideology charts first of all the influence of French reactionary thinking on Eliot's prose and poetry, and further argues that this political inheritance provided the intellectual framework he employed throughout his career. Asher's concentration on the specifically ideological separates this book from previous works on Eliot, and sheds light on Eliot's celebrated mid-career conversion to Catholicism. What results is a re-estimation of Eliot's view of literary history and literary theory, and new appraisals of several major poems and plays. Finally, the book discusses at length how Eliot's ideology profoundly influenced the study of literature in the English-speaking world for several decades.

T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

Author: John Xiros Cooper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-12-14

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0521496292

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Criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper shows how Eliot deliberately addressed a North Atlantic 'mandarinate' fearful of social disintegration during the politically turbulent 1930s. Almost immediately following publication, Four Quartets was accorded canonical status as a work that promised a personal harmony divorced from the painful disharmonies of the emerging postwar world. Cooper connects Eliot's careers as banker, director and editor to a much wider cultural agenda. He aimed to reinforce established social structures during a period of painful political transition. This powerful and original study re-establishes the public context in which Eliot's work was received and understood. It will become an essential reference work for all interested in a wider understanding of Eliot and of Anglo-American cultural relations.

Christianity and Culture
Christianity and Culture

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780156177351

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Two long essays: "The Idea of a Christian Society" on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.

Criticism and Ideology
Criticism and Ideology

Author: Terry Eagleton

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1789602378

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Terry Eagleton is one of the most important-and most radical-theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. In this new edition of his groundbreaking treatise on literary theory, Eagleton seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism. Ranging across the key works of Raymond Williams, Lenin, Trotsky, Brecht, Adorno, Benjamin, Lukacs and Sartre, he develops a nuanced critique of traditional literary criticism while producing a compelling theoretical account of ideology. Eagleton uses this perspective to offer fascinating analyses of canonical writers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence. The new introduction sets this classic book in the context of its first appearance and Eagleton provides illuminating reflections on the progress of literary study over the years.

Phantom Formations
Phantom Formations

Author: Marc Redfield

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1501723170

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Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.

T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot

Author: Amar Nath Dwivedi

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 2003-03

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9788126901364

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This Book Is The Outcome Of The Author S Continued Study And Research In T.S. Eliot Literature, Demonstrating As It Does His Valid Critical Insight And Sound Judgement. There Are Scholars Who Might Initially Differ With Him In Regard To His Formulations About Eliot S Indebtedness To Indian Thought And Tradition, But They Will Have To Accept Them Ultimately In The Presence Of Well-Researched And Well-Documented Internal And External Evidences. Even Established Western Scholars Like Grover Smith Of The Duke University And Charles M. Holmes Of The Transylvania University, U.S.A., Besides A Host Of Indian Professors And Scholars, Have Acknowledged The Truth.The Book Comprising Eighteen Papers Present A Comprehensive View Of Eliot And Bring Out His Multi-Pronged Genius.Eliot Was An American By Birth And Education, An Anglo-Catholic By Religion, A Britisher By Way Of Naturalized Citizenship , A Deep-Rooted European By Sense Of Culture, A Universal Poet And An International Hero By Means Of His Creative Talent And Art.The Book Highlightes Eliot S Literary Personality And The Different Aspects Of His Creative Art. These Papers Undoubtedly Broaden The Scope Of Approach To Eliot. The Book Is Designed In Such A Way That It Will Attract Both Common And Specialist Readers.

The Philosophy of Poetry
The Philosophy of Poetry

Author: John Gibson

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0199603677

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In recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening. Poetry is the sole exception. This is an astonishing omission, one this collection of original essays will correct. If contemporary philosophy still regards metaphors such as 'Juliet is the sun' as a serious problem, one has an acute sense of how prepared it is to make philosophical and aesthetic sense of poems such W. B. Yeats's 'The Second Coming', Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy', or Paul Celan's 'Todesfuge'. The Philosophy of Poetry brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy. In doing so it lays the foundation for a proper philosophy of poetry, setting out the various puzzles and paradoxes that future work in the field will have to address. Given its breadth of approach, the volume is relevant not only to aesthetics but to all areas of philosophy concerned with meaning, truth, and the communicative and expressive powers of language more generally. Poetry is the last unexplored frontier in contemporary analytic aesthetics, and this volume offers a powerful demonstration of how central poetry should be to philosophy.

The Philosophy of T. S. Eliot
The Philosophy of T. S. Eliot

Author: William Skaff

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1512806943

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T. S. Eliot's mind encompasses just about every important avant-garde intellectual movement of his time. His thought, as well as his poetry, represents an essential and original achievement within Modernism. This study presents Eliot's unique synthesis of contemporary philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and studies in mysticism, and demonstrates how it is responsible for the nature of his religious belief, the basic tenets of his literary theory, and the figurative, structural, and dramatic aspects of his verse, pervading virtually everything he wrote throughout his life. The chapters are Skepticism, Mysticism, The Unconscious, Primitive Experience, Mythic Consciousness, and A Surrealist Poetic.

New World Modernisms
New World Modernisms

Author: Charles W. Pollard

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780813922782

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Pollard looks to recent Caribbean poetry as a means of reassessing modernism's cosmopolitanism; in particular, his book redefines the cosmopolitan influence of T.S. Eliot's modernism by examining how his ideas have been transformed by the two leading Anglophone Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite.