| Description |
1 online resource (226 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright; Abstract; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; I. Historical Context; II. The Making of the Poem; III. Mythical Substrate; IV. The Modernist Form; V. Six Keys of Interpretation; VI. A New Reading; Commentary; Preliminary Note; Textual Corrections; I. The Burial of the Dead; II. A Game of Chess; III. The Fire Sermon; IV. Death by Water; V. What the Thunder Said; The Biographical Key; I. The Biographical Approach; II. Autobiographical Allusions; III. An Elegy?; IV. The Love Triangle; V.A Biographical Reading; Coda; Bibliography. |
| Summary |
Claes argues that The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is actually indicative of infertility in his marriage. While also cracking several riddles that Eliot put into the poem, this book provides ample evidence that the work is auto-biographical in nature. Claes provides line-by-line analysis of the poem, and the introduction presents six interpretive keys facilitating a systematic decoding. Textual arrangement, thematic recurrence, metaphorical syncretism, mythical method, allegorical representation, and inter-textual reference may help the reader to penetrate the multiple mysteries of the poem. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Waste land.
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Waste land (Eliot, T. S.) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Claes, Paul. A Commentary on T.S. Eliot's Poem The Waste Land : The Infertility Theme and the Poet's Unhappy Marriage. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2001 9780773426511 |
| ISBN |
9780773411739 (electronic book) |
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0773411739 (electronic book) |
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