Reading 'the Waste Land'
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A01=Jewel Spears Brooker
A01=Joseph Bentley
allusion tracking and mythic method
and narrative fragmentation
annotated passages for classroom use
annotated teaching edition supplement
archive-driven commentary and bibliographic notes
Author_Jewel Spears Brooker
Author_Joseph Bentley
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comparative readings with contemporaries
contemporary theory applied to canonical verse
critical reception and scholarly debate overview
cross-disciplinary literary study resource
editorial commentary and footnote guidance
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formal analysis of rhythm and meter
fragmentation and collage in early modernism
hermeneutics and interpretive theory
historical and cultural contextualization
intertextual mapping and source annotation
language crisis and literary renewal
limits of textual interpretation discussions
line-level commentary and explanatory notes
mid-century and later critical responses
mythic structures and ritual motifs
pedagogical guide for literature courses
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Pioneering modernist close reading
poet's diction and prosody analysis
reader-response and authorial intention conversation
reading practices and methodological reflection
seminar-ready primary source companion
synoptic close-analysis approach
verse-by-verse exegesis for scholars
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Product details
- ISBN 9780870238031
- Weight: 383g
- Dimensions: 150 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 1992
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book offers fresh commentary on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, a book of modernist poetry published in 1922. It aims to be both a part-by-part analysis of the poem with periodic summations and a meditation on the limits of interpretation and the problematic nature of reading in the late 20th century. Bringing both Eliot's philosophical writings and contemporary theory to their interpretation, the authors aim to demonstrate that in his early essays and poems, Eliot anticipated by over 50 years basic insights of contemporary theory. Using The Waste Land as their reference point, they clarify the manner in which modernist texts both insist upon and defeat interpretation.
