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- Book Title
- Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot
- Genre
- Specialty Boutique
- Topic
- History & Criticism
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adult
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- ISBN
- 9780521806886
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521806887
ISBN-13
9780521806886
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5976970
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot
Publication Year
2004
Subject
Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2004-040760
Reviews
'... it provides valuable insight for those interested in modernism and gender, and it is absolutely essential reading for scholars of Eliot.' Twentieth Century Literature, 'New Criticism … is dedicated to professionally structured and articulated expositions of technique at the expense of professionally structured and articulated expositions of social meaning. What Laity means by 'unthinkable merges' is that the professional critic should attempt to bridge the gulf. This is what many of the essays in Laity and Gish's important and useful collection do. Eliot construed as the 'last stronghold' of an antiquated critical tendency is already very near to Eliot construed as a psychoanalytic exemplum of repression - and the methodology of many of the essays harmonizes with this highly suggestive description of their subject … Peter Middleton, in 'The Masculinity behind the Ghosts of Modernism in Eliot's Four Quartets', offers an ingenious interpretation of Eliot's later poetry which recasts its long acknowledged cultural conservatism in Freudian terms as a failure of mourning … Charles Altieri's 'Theorizing Emotions in Eliot's Poetry and Politics' sets itself against strong Freudian readings of Eliot, seeking instead to describe and evaluate Eliot's achievement in transforming the emotional content and power of poetry … I think it is a remarkable and fecund comparison. The essay impressively repositions the critic addressing 'Eliot's sexuality' by asking her to recognize in Eliot's singular transformation of the emotional content of poetry a direct challenge to her own habits of negotiating the desire for authentic self-expression.' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, "The essays in this collection...work remarkably well as a single book." - English Literature in Transition, Leonard Diepeveen, Dalhousie University, "While successfully gathering multiple fresh perspectives on the dynamic and complex modernity of Eiliot, this essay collection also offers the reader a remarkably thorough account of the trajectory of Eliot criticism." Kelley Lewis, Dalhousie University, 'New Criticism ... is dedicated to professionally structured and articulated expositions of technique at the expense of professionally structured and articulated expositions of social meaning. What Laity means by 'unthinkable merges' is that the professional critic should attempt to bridge the gulf. This is what many of the essays in Laity and Gish's important and useful collection do. Eliot construed as the 'last stronghold' of an antiquated critical tendency is already very near to Eliot construed as a psychoanalytic exemplum of repression - and the methodology of many of the essays harmonizes with this highly suggestive description of their subject ... Peter Middleton, in 'The Masculinity behind the Ghosts of Modernism in Eliot's Four Quartets', offers an ingenious interpretation of Eliot's later poetry which recasts its long acknowledged cultural conservatism in Freudian terms as a failure of mourning ... Charles Altieri's 'Theorizing Emotions in Eliot's Poetry and Politics' sets itself against strong Freudian readings of Eliot, seeking instead to describe and evaluate Eliot's achievement in transforming the emotional content and power of poetry ... I think it is a remarkable and fecund comparison. The essay impressively repositions the critic addressing 'Eliot's sexuality' by asking her to recognize in Eliot's singular transformation of the emotional content of poetry a direct challenge to her own habits of negotiating the desire for authentic self-expression.'Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, '… it provides valuable insight for those interested in modernism and gender, and it is absolutely essential reading for scholars of Eliot.' Twentieth Century Literature
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
821/.912
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Eliot, gender and modernity Cassandra Laity; Part I. Homoeroticisms: 1. The love song of T. S. Eliot: elegiac homoeroticism in the early poetry Colleen Lamos; 2. T. S. Eliot, famous clairvoyante Tim Dean; 3. 'Cells in one body': nation and eros in the early work of T. S. Eliot Michele Tepper; 4. The masculinity behind the ghosts of modernism in Eliot's Four Quartets Peter Middleton; Part II. Desire: 5. Discarnate desire: T. S. Eliot and the poetics of dissociation Nancy K. Gish; 6. Mimetic desire and the return to origins in The Waste Land Jewel Spears Brooker; 7. Theorizing emotion in Eliot's poetry and poetics Charles Altieri; Part III. Modern Women: 8. Through schoolhouse windows: women, the academy and T. S. Eliot Gail McDonald; 9. T. S. Eliot speaks the body: the privileging of female discourse in Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party Richard Badenhausen; 10. T. S. Eliot, women and democracy Rachel Potter; 11. Vipers, viragos and spiritual rebels: women in T. S. Eliot's Christian society plays Elisabeth Däumer; Index.
Synopsis
This collection of essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and early twentieth-century feminism in his poetry, prose and drama. Ranging from historical and formalist literary criticism to psychological and psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, Gender, Desire and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot illuminates such topics as the influence of Eliot's mother - a poet and social reformer - on his art; the aesthetic function of physical desire; the dynamic of homosexuality in his poetry and prose; and his identification with passive or 'feminine' desire in his poetry and drama. The book also charts his reception by female critics from the early twentieth century to the present. This book should be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as queer theory and gender studies., This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and early twentieth-century feminism in his poetry, prose and drama, and should be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as queer theory and gender studies., Bringing together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches, this collection studies T.S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and feminism in his poetry, prose and drama. In particular, it illuminates the influence of Eliot's poet mother; the dynamic of homosexuality in his work; his poetic identification with passive desire; and his reception by female academics from the early twentieth century to the present. The book will be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as of queer theory and gender studies.
LC Classification Number
PS3509.L43 Z6765 200
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