Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism / Edition 1

by Jewel Spears Brooker

Overview

These expert studies in some of the key figures behind Eliot's modernism - Mallarme, Frazer, F.H. Bradley, and T.E. Hulme - yield fresh insights which are brought to bear most fruitfully on his major poems Gerontion, The Waste Land and Four Quartets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558490406
Publisher:	University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date:	09/12/1996
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1320L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Examining modernism as a cultural and literary phenomenon and as an ideology, Brooker (literature, Eckerd College) distinguishes between two groups of modernists: one consisting mostly of exiles and characterized by internationalism and intellectual complexity, the other comprising primarily artists who consciously resist the aesthetic and political tendencies of the first group. Her focus is on the first group: most particularly, on T.S. Eliot. Included are chapters on Mallarme and Hulme and extended discussion of Yeats and Joyce. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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