T.S. Eliot's the Waste Land (Critical Studies of Key Texts (Harvester Wheatsheaf (Publisher)).) [Hardcover]

Gareth Reeves (Author)

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Series: Critical Studies of Key Texts (Harvester Wheatsheaf (Publisher)). | Publication Date: June 1994

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.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 136 pages
Publisher: Harvester Wheatsheaf (June 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745007384
ISBN-13: 978-0745007380
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,429,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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