Ascetic Modernism in the Work of T. S. Eliot and Gustave Flaubert

ISBN-13: 9781848934375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.

Henry Michael Gott

Opis

Gott examines Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) in conjunction with Gustave Flaubert's La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874). He provides a highly original reading of both texts and argues that a stylistic affinity exists between the two works.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Visual and Verbal Quotation in Flaubert and Eliot; Chapter 2 Figuring the Saint: Physical and Intellectual Representations of Asceticism; Chapter 3 The Empty Stage: Landscape and the Dramatic in La Tentation De Saint Antoine and The Waste Land; Chapter 4 The Ascetic Text of La Tentation De Saint Antoine and The Waste Land; Chapter 5 ‘Caught in the Circle of Desire’: The Vortex as Ascetic Metaphor; conclusion Conclusion;

O autorze

Henry Michael Gott