T.S. Eliot and Prejudice [Hardcover]

Christopher B. Ricks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1989

This is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice.

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Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Ricks has written not merely a fine study of T.S. Eliot but an interesting work of criticism that combines the best of New Criticism (a strict reading of texts and keen awareness of ambiguity) and of Deconstruction (a sensitivity to the way the text undercuts itself and deliberately frustrates simplistic "reader responses"). Ricks does an admirable job of explicating Eliot's "Prufrock," and in all his readings he gives fresh evidence of the highly complicated mind Eliot brought to bear on even the titles of his work. This is not another tired discussion of Eliot's racial prejudices (which Ricks nicely contrasts with those of Pound) but a profound inquiry into the nature of writing about prejudice, a kind of minefield where "even the demolition squad sows its own bombs." Recommended for all larger collections.
- Daniel L. Guillory, Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 297 pages
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr (July 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520065786
• ISBN-13: 978-0520065789
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,600,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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