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Author_Gareth Reeves
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Cocktail Shaker
Dans Le Restaurant
Eliot's Earlier Poetry
Eliot's Note
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Fire Sermon
gender representation criticism
Hanged Man
Heroic Hunger
Hyacinth Garden
Hyacinth Girl
Inferno XXVI
intonation in literature
Inviolable Voice
Jug Jug
La Figlia Che Piange
La La
Madame Sosostris
modernist poetry analysis
Nineteenth Century French Poet
open-ended poem interpretation
poetic syntax and lineation
reader-response theory
reception studies
Sentence's Main Verb
Shakespeherian Rag
Shantih Shantih
Spenser's Line
Spenser's Prothalamion
Twit Twit
Violet Hour
Wrinkled Female Breasts
Product details
- ISBN 9780745007380
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work argues that although "The Waste Land" demands close reading, the spirit of the old New Criticism works with inappropriate assumptions about unity and closed form. Many critics have tried to fix the text, to find hidden narratives and plots, spiritual guests and allegories of salvation. Instead, this reading sees the poem as resolutely open-ended, supporting this view with recent developments in Reader-Response criticism and Reception Theory. The study focuses on the way poetry sounds (or does not sound, cannot be sounded). It concentrates on syntax, lineation and intonation. It also brings out the presence of the muted voices of wronged women in a work often called misogynistic.
Gareth Reeves is Reader in English at Durham University.
