عنوان

T.S. Eliot and the ideology of Four quartets /

(Number (ISBN

0521496292 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9780521496292 (hardback)

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Title Proper

T.S. Eliot and the ideology of Four quartets /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

John Xiros Cooper.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1995.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 235 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-227) and index.

Text of Note

1. Ash-Wednesday and the transition to the late candour -- 2. Provisional delusions: crisis among the mandarins -- 3. The society of the mandarin verse play -- 4. Representing Four Quartets: the canonizers at work -- 5. Four Quartets: the poem proper. i. Burnt children. ii. Rehearsing renunciation. iii. Freedom in history -- 6. White mythology: the comedy of manners in Natopolis.

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Recent criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper shows how Eliot deliberately addressed a North Atlantic 'mandarinate' fearful of social disintegration during the politically turbulent 1930s. Almost immediately following publication, Four Quartets was accorded canonic status as a work that promised a personal harmony divorced from the disharmonies of the emerging postwar world. Cooper connects Eliot's careers as banker, director and editor to a much wider cultural agenda. He aimed to reinforce established social structures during a period of painful political transition. This powerful and original study re-establishes the public context in which Eliot's work was received and understood.

Parallel Title

TS Eliot and the ideology of Four quartets

Eliot, T. S., (Thomas Stearns),1888-1965-- Political and social views.

Eliot, T. S., (Thomas Stearns),1888-1965., Four quartets.

Literature and society-- England-- History-- 20th century.

Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Social problems in literature.

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Book number

Cooper, John Xiros,1944-

Date of Transaction

20140214081918.0

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[Book]

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