The Waste land at 90 : a retrospective / / edited by Joe Moffett.

• Superior document: Dialogue, 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Moffett, Joe.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Presenting work from scholars of various ranks and locations—including Canada, Romania, Taiwan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the UK, and the USA—this volume offers critical perspectives on what is often considered the most important poem of literary modernism: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land . The essays explore such topics as Eliot’s use of sources, his poem’s form, his influences, and his alleged misogyny. Building off contemporary work on Eliot and his poem, these essays illustrate the continued importance of The Waste Land in our understanding of the last century. This book should be of interest to students and scholars of modernism and modernist poetry.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- The Waste Land: A Personal Grouse / Leon Surette -- The Dugs of Tiresias: Female Sexuality and Modernist Nationalism in The Waste Land and Les mamelles de Tirésias / Adrianna E. Frick -- Manchild in The Waste Land: The Narrator of Eliot's 1921 Manuscript / Matthew J. Bolton -- The Poem as Situation: Eliot's Meaning and Pound's Truth in The Waste Land / Cameron MacKenzie -- Death by Water: A Reevaluation of Bradleian Philosophy in The Waste Land / Aaron Bibb -- The Use of Poetry and the Use of Religion / Liliana Pop -- Thinking the Nothing: Nihilism in The Waste Land / Ben Bakhtiarynia -- Cultural and Textual (Dis)unity: Poetics of Nothingness in The Waste Land / Petar Penda -- The Waste Land and Critique / Justin Evans -- \'The Room Enclosed\': Eliot's Settings / Yasmine Shamma -- The Waste Land and the Virtual City / Carol L. Yang -- Falling Towers: The Waste Land and September 11, 2001 / Joyce Wexler -- Mashup, Hypertext, and the Future of The Waste Land / Will Gray -- About the Authors -- Essay Abstracts -- Index.