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T.S. Eliot: A Beginner's Guide,9780340800348
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T.S. Eliot: A Beginner's Guide


Author(s): Wisker, Alistair
ISBN10:  0340800348
ISBN13:  9780340800348
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  12/1/2001
Publisher(s): TRAFALGAR SQUARE

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SummaryTable of Contents
This volume introduces you to the life and works of this eminent and prolific writer. By exploring some of his major novels, short stories, and poems, the author aims to show the relevance of Eliot in the 21st century.
How to Use This Book 1(1)
Begin reading the author
1(1)
How to approach unfamiliar or difficult texts
1(1)
Vocabulary
2(1)
Summary
2(1)
Why Read T.S. Eliot Today?
3(9)
Eliot's opening lines
3(1)
Unforgettable lines
4(1)
The relationships between reading and writing
5(2)
Rich variety
7(1)
In advance of his time
7(1)
In search of identity, belief and the modern
8(3)
Summary
11(1)
How to Approach Eliot's Work
12(7)
Read it carefully several times
12(1)
Eliot as an innovator
13(1)
Reading `The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'
14(2)
Reading `The Fire Sermon' from The Waste Land
16(1)
Irony, humour and cats
17(1)
Summary
18(1)
Biography and Influences
19(11)
Ancestry
19(2)
Early life
21(1)
The sea
21(2)
Early studies
23(1)
Influences: writers and thinkers
23(2)
Work and first marriage
25(1)
1917--22
25(2)
New literary recognition
27(1)
His plays and later work
28(1)
The death of T.S. Eliot
28(1)
Summary
29(1)
The Major Works
30(24)
`The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'
31(4)
Some other early poems: `The Preludes'
35(1)
`Gerontion' and `Sweeney Among the Nightingales'
35(1)
The Waste Land
36(10)
The Four Quartets
46(2)
`Burnt Norton'
48(3)
`East Coker'
51(1)
`The Dry Salvages'
52(1)
Summary
53(1)
Contemporary Critical Approaches
54(9)
Eliot as an innovator in a time of change
54(1)
Eliot as critic (of himself)
54(1)
The response to the early poetry
55(1)
Ezra Pound
56(1)
William Carlos Williams
57(1)
The response to The Waste Land
58(2)
Growing reputation and success
60(2)
Summary
62(1)
Modern Critical Approaches
63(11)
Reassessing Eliot's work
63(1)
Eliot and modernity (a second time)
64(1)
Eliot and the postmodern
65(1)
Eliot and ideology, sexuality and nationality
66(7)
Summary
73(1)
Where Next?
74(4)
Read more of Eliot's writing
74(1)
Read his contemporaries
75(1)
Read those who influenced him
76(1)
The Internet
76(1)
Summary
77(1)
Chronology of Major Works 78(2)
Glossary 80(4)
Further Reading List 84(2)
Index 86

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