The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 provided the salutary occasion to go back to his life and work, to reassess him in the light of issues raised by various critical movements--the new historicism, feminism, reader-reception theory--that have come to the fore since the New Criticism poststructuralist. This sort of reassessment is the lively and pertinent idea behind Ronald Bush's collection of new essays on Eliot. The essays assembled vary in approach, but share a commitment to the discipline of history, and an awareness that history can function as critique as well as celebration. Many of the essays take issue with Eliot's self-presentation and include documents Eliot chose not to emphasize. Some press the limits of literary and intellectual history to enter areas of cultural practice, stressing the institutions of publishing and the social processes of gender formation. Other essays address issues such as the direction of twentieth-century writing, the impact of self-professed masculinist poetry on women readers, and whether modernism's social values were really consistently inimical to liberal visions of the future.
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The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 has provided this occasion to review his life and work, and reassess him in the light of various critical developments in the new historicism, feminism, and reader-reception theory that have emerged since the "New Criticism".
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- The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot on 93 pages
- Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot on 12 pages
- The Little Review by Ezra Pound on 9 pages
- Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot on 7 pages
- The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot on 7 pages
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- Ruskin and Modernism by Giovanni Cianci on 6 pages
- T. S. Eliot and Ideology (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Kenneth Asher on 4 pages
- T. S. Eliot and American Philosophy: The Harvard Years by Manju Jain on 4 pages
- T.S. Eliot's Orchestra: Critical Essays on Poetry and Music (Border Crossings) by John Xiros Cooper on 4 pages
- Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T. S. Eliot on page 9, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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