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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195057171

ISBN-139780195057171

eBay Product ID (ePID)1314054

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Book TitleDiscovering Modernism : T. S. Eliot and His Context

Number of Pages222 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1988

TopicLife Sciences / Botany, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

GenreLiterary Criticism, Science

AuthorLouis Menand

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8.7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN86-008646

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal821/.912

SynopsisA study of a literary success, and the forces that combine to create a successful literary movement, Discovering Modernism places T.S. Eliot in his cultural context to discover why his poetry and criticism answered the needs of a particular moment. Menand's analysis, which includes a reevaluation of the influence of Eliot's doctoral dissertation in philosophy on his later work, yields fresh readings of some familiar features of Eliot's style--the use of literary allusion, the valorization of "tradition," the critical formulae of the objective corrolative and the dissociation of sensibility, and the notes to The Waste Land. But this book is about more than T.S. Eliot. Because Menands's larger subject is the crisis in literature that produced Eliot and the entire Modernist movement, he examines the ways in which the literary values of the 19th century became problems for their 20th-century counterparts. With discussion of such topics as Conrad and the rise of professionalism, Darwinism and the late 19th century notion of style, Tennyson's posthumous reputation, and Pater and the Imagists, he contributes to our knowledge of the ties that bound Modernism to the 19th century, and sheds new light on how writers go about "making it new.", When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well asa detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism. Menand shows how Eliot's early views onliterary value and authenticity, and his later repudiation of those views, reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. It will prove an eye-opening study for readers with an interest in thewritings of T.S. Eliot and other luminaries of the Modernist era., A study of a literary success and the forces that combine to create a successful literary movement, this lucid volume places T.S. Eliot in his cultural context to discover why his poetry and criticism answered the needs of a particular moment. Menand provides fresh insight into familiar features of Eliot's work as he enhances our understanding of the ties that bound modernism to the culture of the 19th century and of the complex nature of literary change.

LC Classification NumberPS3509.L43Z/