Revisiting "The Waste Land"

Revisiting
Author: Lawrence Rainey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300129793

divThis groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T. S. Eliot’s poetic masterpiece, The Waste Land. Lawrence Rainey not only resolves longstanding mysteries surrounding the composition of the poem but also overturns traditional interpretations of the poem that have prevailed for more than eighty years. He shines new light on Eliot’s greatest achievement and on the poem’s place in the modern canon. Far from the austere and sober monument to neoclassicism that admirers have praised, The Waste Land turns out to be something quite different: something grim and wild, unruly and intractable, violent and shocking and radically indeterminate, yet also deeply compassionate. Rainey looks at how Eliot went about writing the poem and at the sequence in which he composed the parts. Arriving at new insights into the poet’s intentions, Rainey unsettles tradition-bound views of the poem and shows us that The Waste Land is even stranger and more startling than we knew./DIV

A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture
Author: David Bradshaw
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1405154675

The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essentialtexts and contexts of the modernist movement with the uniqueinsights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the studyof modernism. An essential resource for students and teachers of modernistliterature and culture Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the mostdistinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture,contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all thegenres of modernist writing and art Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature,from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Zora NealHurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God Pays close attention to both British and Americanmodernism

The Waste Land and Other Poems

The Waste Land and Other Poems
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0593313356

A collection of T.S. Eliot’s most important poems, including “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” T. S. Eliot is one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century. His unique and innovative evocations of the folly and poetry of humanity helped reshape modern literature, with poems such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” included here, and most notable, the title poem, “The Waste Land,” his groundbreaking masterpiece of postwar decay and redemption. Since its publication in 1922, “The Waste Land” has become one of the most widely studied modernist texts in English literature. Gathering together many of Eliot's major early poems, distinguished Harvard scholar and literary critic Helen Vendler presents an invaluable portrait of T. S. Eliot as a young poet and examines the artistry and craft that made him a Nobel laureate and one of the most significant voices in modern verse.

The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose

The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300133561

Newly revised and in paperback for the first time, this definitive, annotated edition of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land "includes as a bonus""all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing his masterpiece. Enriched with period photographs, a London map of cited locations, groundbreaking information on the origins of the work, and full annotations, the volume is itself a landmark in literary history. "More than any previous editor, Rainey provides the reader with every resource that might help explain the genesis and significance of the poem. . . . The most imaginative and useful edition of "The Waste Land" ever published."--Adam Kirsch, "New Criterion ""For the student or for anyone who wants to get the maximum amount of information out of a foundational modernist work, this is the best available edition."--"Publishers Weekly"

The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land

The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land
Author: Gabrielle McIntire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2015-09-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107050677

This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land that will be invaluable to scholars, students, and general readers.

Modernism

Modernism
Author: Lawrence Rainey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1217
Release: 2005-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0631204482

Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published. Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Samuel Beckett. Includes a generous selection of Continental texts, enabling readers to trace modernism’s dialogue with the Futurists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, and the Frankfurt School. Supported by helpful annotations, and an extensive bibliography. Allows readers to encounter anew the extraordinary revolution in language that transformed the aesthetics of the modern world .

The Waste Land After One Hundred Years

The Waste Land After One Hundred Years
Author: Steven Matthews
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre:
ISBN: 1843846365

An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years.

Gale Researcher Guide for: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Gale Researcher Guide for: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Author: Frances Dickey
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 14
Release:
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1535852577

Gale Researcher Guide for: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Institutions of Modernism

Institutions of Modernism
Author: Lawrence S. Rainey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780300070507

This account of modernism and its place in public culture looks at where modernism was produced and how it was transmitted to particular audiences. The individual tales of figures like Joyce, Pound, Marinetti and Eliot provide perspectives on the larger story of modernism itself.