The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press, 11/14/2016
EAN 9781107037014, ISBN10: 1107037018

Hardcover, 240 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Drawing on the latest developments in scholarship and criticism, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot opens up fresh avenues of appreciation and inquiry to a global twenty-first century readership. Emphasizing major works and critical issues, this collection of newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars provides seven full chapters reassessing Eliot's poetry and drama; explores important contemporary critical issues that were previously untreated, such as the significance of gender and sexuality; and challenges received accounts of his at times controversial critical reception. Complete with a chronology of Eliot's life and work and an up-to-date select bibliography, this authoritative and accessible introduction to Eliot's complete oeuvre will be an essential resource for students.

1. Unravelling Eliot Jason Harding
2. Eliot
form and allusion Michael O'Neill
3. Prufrock and Other Observations Anne Stillman
4. Banishing the backward devils
Eliot's quatrain poems and 'Gerontion' Rick de Villiers
5. With automatic hand
The Waste Land Lawrence Rainey
6. 'Let these words answer'
Ash-Wednesday and the Ariel poems Sarah Kennedy
7. Four Quartets Steve Ellis
8. 'A precise way of thinking and feeling'
Eliot and verse drama Anthony Cuda
9. T. S. Eliot as literary critic Helen Thaventhiran
10. T. S. Eliot's social criticism John Xiros Cooper
11. Gender and sexuality Gail McDonald
12. Eliot's philosophical studies
Bergson, Frazer, Bradley Jewel Spears Brooker
13. Anglo-Catholic in religion
T. S. Eliot and Christianity Barry Spurr.