Reading the Waste Land from the Bottom Up

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-48838-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 273 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4728 g

A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land, Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Booth, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Dog Loping After a Frisbee 1. The Burial of the Dead 2. A Game of Chess 3. The Fire Sermon 4. Death by Water 5. What the Thunder Said

Über Autor(innen)

Allyson Booth is Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy.