T. S. Elliot's the Waste Land

ISBN-13: 9781138458444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Gareth Reeves

Opis

This reading sees "The Waste Land" 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 and concentrates on syntax, lineation and intonation.

Spis treści

I: Contexts; Historical and Cultural Context; Critical Reception; Theoretical Perspectives; II: The Waste Land A Reading of the Text; I: 'The Burial of the Dead'; II: 'A Game of Chess'; III: 'The Fire Sermon'; IV: 'Death by Water'; V: 'What the Thunder said'

O autorze

Gareth Reeves is Reader in English at Durham University.