Author: Michael Bell
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144389835X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
T.S. Eliot was arguably the most important poet of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, there remains much scope for reconsidering the content, form and expressive nature of Eliot’s religious poetry, and this edited collection pays particular attention to the multivalent spiritual dimensions of his popular poems, such as ‘The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Waste Land’, ‘Journey of the Magi’, ‘The Hollow Men’, and ‘Choruses’ from The Rock. Eliot’s sustained popularity is an intriguing cultural phenomenon, given that the religious voice of Eliot’s poetry is frequently antagonistic towards the ‘unchurched’ or secular reader: ‘You! Hypocrite lecteur!’ This said, Eliot’s spiritual development was not a logical matter and his devotional poetry is rarely didactic. The volume presents a rich and powerful range of essays by leading and emerging T.S. Eliot and literary modernist scholars, considering the doctrinal, religious, humanist, mythic and secular aspects of Eliot’s poetry: Anglo-Catholic belief (Barry Spurr), the integration of doctrine and poetry (Tony Sharpe), the modernist mythopoeia of Four Quartets (Michael Bell), the ‘felt significance’ of religious poetry (Andy Mousley), ennui as a modern evil (Scott Freer), Eliot’s pre-conversion encounter with ‘modernist theology’ (Joanna Rzepa), Eliot’s ‘religious agrarianism’ (Jeremy Diaper), the maternal allegory of Ash Wednesday (Matthew Geary), and an autobiographical reading of religious conversion inspired by Eliot in a secular age (Lynda Kong). This book is a timely addition to the ‘return of religion’ in modernist studies in the light of renewed interest in T.S. Eliot scholarship.
Religion and Myth in T.S. Eliot's Poetry
Poetry and Belief in the Work of T. S. Eliot
Author: Kristian Smidt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317303229
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot’s works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot’s work, and includes Eliot’s personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure and imagery of his poetry. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317303229
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot’s works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot’s work, and includes Eliot’s personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure and imagery of his poetry. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
From Ritual to Romance
Author: Jessie Laidlay Weston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship explores the connection between the legend of the Grail and ancient mystery cults. A major source for T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship explores the connection between the legend of the Grail and ancient mystery cults. A major source for T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land."
The Religious Quest in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot
Author: Caroline Phillips
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This volume presents a reading of poems directly related to the poet's quest for God. This book illuminates those aspects which reveal his importance as a religious writer, the journey of the man in search of God.
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This volume presents a reading of poems directly related to the poet's quest for God. This book illuminates those aspects which reveal his importance as a religious writer, the journey of the man in search of God.
T.S. Eliot and the Myth of Adequation
Author: Alan Weinblatt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions
Author: Cleo McNelly Kearns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521324397
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521324397
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.
The T. S. Eliot Myth
Author: Rossell Hope Robbins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Poetry & Myth
Author: Frederick Clarke Prescott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism
Author: Kostas Boyiopoulos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429537433
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one which is constantly challenged, hybridised, and fractured by voices operating from inside and outside the boundaries it designates. These concerns are reflected by those figures addressed by our contributors’ chapters, which include Rupert Brooke, G. K. Chesterton, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, M. R. James, C.L.R James, Vernon Lee, D.H. Lawrence, Richard La Galliene, Pamela Colman Smith, Arthur Symons, and H.G. Wells. Alert to these disturbing voices or unsettling presences that vex accounts of an emergent Modernism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literary cultures predominately between 1890-1939, our volume questions traditional critical mappings, taxonomies, and periodisations of this vital literary cultural moment. Our volume is equally sensitive to how the avant garde felt for those living and writing within the period with a view to offering a renewed sense of the literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429537433
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one which is constantly challenged, hybridised, and fractured by voices operating from inside and outside the boundaries it designates. These concerns are reflected by those figures addressed by our contributors’ chapters, which include Rupert Brooke, G. K. Chesterton, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, M. R. James, C.L.R James, Vernon Lee, D.H. Lawrence, Richard La Galliene, Pamela Colman Smith, Arthur Symons, and H.G. Wells. Alert to these disturbing voices or unsettling presences that vex accounts of an emergent Modernism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literary cultures predominately between 1890-1939, our volume questions traditional critical mappings, taxonomies, and periodisations of this vital literary cultural moment. Our volume is equally sensitive to how the avant garde felt for those living and writing within the period with a view to offering a renewed sense of the literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism.
Modernism and Theology
Author: Joanna Rzepa
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030615308
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive account of literary responses to the modernist crisis in Christian theology from a transnational and interdenominational perspective. It offers a cultural history of the period, considering a wide range of literary and historical sources, including novels, drama, poetry, literary criticism, encyclicals, theological and philosophical treatises, periodical publications, and wartime propaganda. By contextualising literary modernism within the cultural, religious, and political landscape, the book reveals fundamental yet largely forgotten connections between literary and theological modernisms. It shows that early-twentieth-century authors, poets, and critics, including Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Czesław Miłosz, actively engaged with the debates between modernist and neo-scholastic theologians raging across Europe. These debates contributed to developing new ways of thinking about the relationship between religion and literature, and informed contemporary critical writings on aesthetics and poetics.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030615308
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive account of literary responses to the modernist crisis in Christian theology from a transnational and interdenominational perspective. It offers a cultural history of the period, considering a wide range of literary and historical sources, including novels, drama, poetry, literary criticism, encyclicals, theological and philosophical treatises, periodical publications, and wartime propaganda. By contextualising literary modernism within the cultural, religious, and political landscape, the book reveals fundamental yet largely forgotten connections between literary and theological modernisms. It shows that early-twentieth-century authors, poets, and critics, including Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Czesław Miłosz, actively engaged with the debates between modernist and neo-scholastic theologians raging across Europe. These debates contributed to developing new ways of thinking about the relationship between religion and literature, and informed contemporary critical writings on aesthetics and poetics.