{"product_id":"a-companion-to-t-s-eliot-paperback-softback-9781118647097","title":"A Companion to T. S. Eliot (Paperback \/ softback) 9781118647097","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to T. S. Eliot\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Companion to T. S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessity for any college or university library and a worthwhile investment for your personal library. You will use it and reuse it, and you'll encourage your students to do the same.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e—The Newsletter of the T. S. Eliot Society\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“The articles are fully informative, readable and stimulating. Students, teachers and all readers interested in literature and poetry will enjoy – and benefit from – this companion.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“As a resource for both scholars and students [this] book is very strong, and stand-out contributions come from John Xiros Cooper, on Eliot's social critiques, and John Timberman Newcomb’s reconsideration of Eliot's influence as an editor, in which he notes the sometimes overlooked role Eliot played not only in British modernism but also, with Pound, in shaping the public face of the likes of George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky, and Marianne Moore. The collection as a whole, finely edited by Chinitz, will be a necessary reference.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYear’s Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid E. Chinitz (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118647097, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 February 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e512 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.78 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to T.S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his life and achievement.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIt compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and career\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIt explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIt charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot since the early 1990s\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIt provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations Used for Works by T. S. Eliot xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Influences 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot’s Life 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnthony Cuda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Eliot’s Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSanford Schwartz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist City 27\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarry J. Faulk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism 40\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristina Hauck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy 53\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJewel Spears Brooker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture 66\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid E. Chinitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology 79\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarc Manganaro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 “Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”: Imperial Decline and Eliot’s Development 91\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVincent Sherry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Works 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare 107\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJayme Stayer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour 120\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrances Dickey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Disambivalent Quatrains 133\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeffrey M. Perl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 “Gerontion”: The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot 145\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward Brunner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 “Fishing, with the arid plain behind me”: Difficulty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land 157\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Coyle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Enigma of “The Hollow Men” 168\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElisabeth Däumer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristine Buttram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 “Having to construct”: Dissembly Lines in the “Ariel” Poems and Ash-Wednesday 191\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tony Sharpe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 “The inexplicable mystery of sound”: Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses 204\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGareth Reeves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets 216\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLee Oser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 “Away we go”: Poetry and Play in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats 228\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah Bay-Cheng\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Eliot’s 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion 239\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRandy Malamud\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Eliot’s “Divine” Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman 251\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarol H. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeonard Diepeveen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 275\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Badenhausen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 In Times of Emergency: Eliot’s Social Criticism 287\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Xiros Cooper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Contexts 299\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Eliot’s Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics 301\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLawrence Rainey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism 311\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnn Ardis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Conflict and Concealment: Eliot’s Approach to Women and Gender 323\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCyrena Pondrom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Eliot and “Race”: Jews, Irish, and Blacks 335\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBryan Cheyette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 “The pleasures of higher vices”: Sexuality in Eliot’s Work 350\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatrick Query\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 “An occupation for the saint”: Eliot as a Religious Thinker 363\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKevin J. H. Dettmar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Eliot’s Politics 376\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Levenson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot’s Editorship of the Criterion 388\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJason Harding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher 399\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Timberman Newcomb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Eliot and the New Critics 411\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGail McDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 “T. S. Eliot rates socko!”: Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity 423\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAaron Jaffe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Eliot’s Critical Reception: “The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry” 436\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy K. Gish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Influence: The Waste Land 449\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Longenbach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography of Works by T. S. 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