T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form by Anthony Julius (1995, Hardcover)

ZUBER (290909)
98.5% positive feedback
Price:
US $64.49
ApproximatelyRM 265.81
+ $20.14 shipping
Returns:
30 days return. Buyer pays for return shipping. If you use an eBay shipping label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.
Condition:
Like New

About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521470633
ISBN-139780521470636
eBay Product ID (ePID)365446

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameT. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form
Publication Year1995
SubjectDiscrimination & Race Relations, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
AuthorAnthony Julius
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN94-041878
Reviews'... a long overdue act of critical justice ... Eliot studies will never be the same post-Julius.'Tom Paulin, London Review of Books, '... a long overdue act of critical justice ... Eliot studies will never be the same post-Julius.' Tom Paulin, London Review of Books, '… a greater, and always a more honest, admirer of Eliot than those who habitually plaster him with saintliness … Julius's book is mould-breaking.' Frederick Raphael, The Weekly Standard, ‘… a long overdue act of critical justice … Eliot studies will never be the same post-Julius.’Tom Paulin, London Review of Books, '… a long overdue act of critical justice … Eliot studies will never be the same post-Julius.' Tom Paulin, London Review of Books, '... a greater, and always a more honest, admirer of Eliot than those who habitually plaster him with saintliness ... Julius's book is mould-breaking.'Frederick Raphael, The Weekly Standard, ‘Julius has forced us to rethink some of our most fundamental, received ideas about art … an important - and long overdue - book.’The New York Times, 'Julius has forced us to rethink some of our most fundamental, received ideas about art ... an important - and long overdue - book.'The New York Times, 'Julius has forced us to rethink some of our most fundamental, received ideas about art … an important - and long overdue - book.' The New York Times, '... a greater, and always a more honest, admirer of Eliot than those who habitually plaster him with saintliness ... Julius's book is mould-breaking.' Frederick Raphael, The Weekly Standard, ‘… a greater, and always a more honest, admirer of Eliot than those who habitually plaster him with saintliness … Julius’s book is mould-breaking.’Frederick Raphael, The Weekly Standard, 'Julius has forced us to rethink some of our most fundamental, received ideas about art ... an important - and long overdue - book.' The New York Times
Table Of Content1. Introduction; 2. 'Gerontion', criticism, and the limits of the dramatic monologue; 3. 'Sweeney among the nightingales', 'Burbank', and the poetics of anti-Semitism; 4. 'Dirge', 'A Cooking Egg', The Waste Land, and the aesthetics of ugliness; 5. Free-thinking Jews, persecuted Jews, and the anti-Semitism of Eliot's prose; 6. Making amends, making amendments.
SynopsisJulius's critically acclaimed study (looking both at the detail of Eliot's deployment of anti-Semitic discourse and at the role it played in his greater literary undertaking) has provoked a reassessment of Eliot's work among poets, scholars, critics and readers, which will invigorate debate for some time to come., Of the many different kinds of anti-Semite, T. S. Eliot was the rarest kind: one who was able to place his anti-Semitism at the service of his art. Anthony Julius's critically acclaimed study looks both at the detail of Eliot's deployment of anti-Semitic discourse and at the role it played in his greater literary undertaking. Julius's seminal study has provoked a reassessment of Eliot's work among poets, scholars, critics and readers, which will invigorate debate for some time to come.
LC Classification NumberPS3509.L43Z6867 1995
No ratings or reviews yet
Be the first to write a review