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This stimulating and provocative book focuses on the failure to connect that T.S. Eliot saw setting in during the seventeenth century. With special attention to "The Waste Land" and 'Gerontion, ' G. Douglas Atkins shows that Eliot roundly satirized modern misunderstandings and urges readers to make the connections that the "wastelanders" fail to make. Thus, a new approach to reading Eliot opens up, based on suggestions he himself made in the prose and enacted in the poetry. Read more... Abstract: Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and inter-textual, this book is a bold analysis of satire of modern forms of misunderstanding. Read more...

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Author

G. Douglas Atkins (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137375742

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Fiction