134 Pages
by
Routledge
134 Pages
by
Routledge
134 Pages
by
Routledge
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This work argues that although "The Waste Land" demands close reading, the spirit of the old New Criticism works with inappropriate assumptions about unity and closed form. Many critics have tried to fix the text, to find hidden narratives and plots, spiritual guests and allegories of salvation. Instead, this reading sees the poem as resolutely open-ended, supporting this view with recent... Read more
I: Contexts; Historical and Cultural Context; Critical Reception; Theoretical Perspectives; II: The Waste Land A Reading of the Text; I: 'The Burial of the Dead'; II: 'A Game of Chess'; III: 'The Fire Sermon'; IV: 'Death by Water'; V: 'What the Thunder said'
Biography
Gareth Reeves is Reader in English at Durham University.
