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aesthetics of difficulty
anthropology and literature connections
artistic responses to cultural upheaval
Author_Jewel Spears Brooker
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close reading modernist texts
comparative symbolism studies
consciousness and perception in verse
cross-disciplinary literary analysis
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esoteric references in modern verse
European avant-garde influences
formal innovation in twentieth-century verse
fragmentation and unity debates
idealism and metaphysics in literature
imagism and early modern movements
influences on twentieth-century verse
intellectual history of modernism
intellectual networks of modernism
intertextuality in high modernism
interwar literary culture
language and transcendence themes
literary allusion analysis
literary cosmopolitanism
literary modernity and tradition
metaphysical tradition in modern verse
modernist cultural pessimism
modernist poetry scholarship
modernist spiritual searching
modernist symbolism revisited
myth and ritual criticism
mythic method criticism
philosophical skepticism in poetry
philosophy and poetic form
philosophy of experience in poetry
poetic engagement with philosophy
poetic meditation on time
poetic mythmaking techniques
poetic responses to war and disillusion
poetic structure and musicality
poetic voice and tradition
poetics of impersonality
ritual and renewal themes
sources of poetic fragmentation
spiritual crisis in modern poetry
symbolism and abstraction
symbolism and literary theory
symbolism's legacy in English poetry
time and memory in verse
Product details
- ISBN 9781558490406
- Weight: 464g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 1996
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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These expert studies in some of the key figures behind Eliot's modernism - Mallarme, Frazer, F.H. Bradley, and T.E. Hulme - yield fresh insights which are brought to bear most fruitfully on his major poems ""Gerontion"", ""The Waste Land"" and ""Four Quartets"". A spacious and wide-ranging book by a scholar and teacher, is should be welcomed by other Eliot scholars and their students for the skill with which it situates Eliot's work in a web of modernist intellectual and cultural relations. As intellectual history, ""Mastery and Escape"" provides essential background by connecting high modernism to 19th-century philosophy and science. The book succeeds in bringing Eliot's intellectual contexts to bear on his poems.
