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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser.: American T. S. Eliot : A Study of the Early Writings by Eric Sigg (1989, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521365619
ISBN-139780521365611
eBay Product ID (ePID)816416
Product Key Features
Number of Pages280 Pages
Publication NameAmerican T. S. Eliot : a Study of the Early Writings
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1989
SubjectPoetry, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorEric Sigg
SeriesCambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN88-024040
Reviews"Sigg's subtly argued, well-conceived study fills a glaring gap that has existed in Eliot studies for some time. He not only offers a sensitive portrayal of a poet and his work, but forces us to reevaluate Eliot's relationship to his native tradition. It is an indispensable book." Richard Badenhausen, Modern Language Studies
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 34
Dewey Decimal821/.912
Table Of ContentPreface; 1. The souls of the devout; 2. Divisions and precisions: ambivalence and ambiguity; 3. A gesture and a pose: homo duplex; 4. Where are the eagles and the trumpets? American aesthetes; 5. The silhouette of Sweeney: cultures and conflict; 6. Being between two lives: reading The Waste Land; Afterword; Notes; Index.
SynopsisThis is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex American heritage. Analysing major poems from 'Prufrock' through The Waste Land, Sigg draws upon Eliot's early philosophical writing, essays and reviews to reveal Eliot's early poetry both as a distinct entity and as a stage in his development., In his old age T.S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest influence on his poetry. This is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex American heritage: his intellectually and socially prominent family, their strong Unitarian culture, and their experience in nineteenth-century St. Louis and Boston. Analyzing major poems from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" through The Waste Land, and drawing widely upon the early philosophical writings, essays, and reviews, Dr. Sigg shows the influence on Eliot of major American figures such as George Santayana, Henry James, and Henry Adams, as well as of the British philosopher F.H. Bradley on whom Eliot wrote a doctoral dissertation at Harvard., In his old age T. S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest influence on his poetry. This is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex American heritage: his intellectually and socially prominent family, their strong Unitarian culture and their experience in nineteenth-century St Louis and Boston. Besides demonstrating how Eliot's preoccupation with theatricality and self-consciousness descends from a line of American writers with similar impulses, the book pursues the theme of doubleness in rhetoric and the self and traces the influence on Eliot of the philosopher F. H. Bradley. Analysing major poems from 'Prufrock' through The Waste Land, Sigg draws upon Eliot's early philosophical writing, essays and reviews to reveal Eliot's early poetry both as a distinct entity and as a stage in his development.
LC Classification NumberPS3509.L43 Z8653 198
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