T. S. Eliot
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Published in the Daily Yiddish Forward, May 4th, 2018. Based on Chaim Grade's public lectures in the years 1958 - 1981. The paper claims that after Mendele Moycher Sforim, Y. L. Peretz and Sholem Aleichem - Chaim Grade is the candidate to... more
La escritura biográfica sobre Eliot se encuentra en un estado más confuso y controvertido que en cualquier otro gran escritor del siglo XX. No ha salido al mercado ninguna biografía importante desde la publicación de sus primeros poemas,... more
2017 marks the centenary of an artwork judged to be the single most influential of the twentieth century: Marcel Duchamp’s famous “readymade” entitled Fountain. The final verdict on Fountain has been widely accepted, despite the fact that... more
"Eliot and France, France and Eliot", preface, in Jayme Stayer, ed., T. S. Eliot, France, and the Mind of Europe (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), p. X-XIV. T. S. Eliot and France: quel sujet! The French... more
Ein weiterer Zug seiner Originalität liegt in der Art, wie er deutsche und französische Kultur verarbeitet und zusammenführt. Ich wüßte keinen Kritiker in Europa, der mit derselben Sympathie und demselben Verständnis über Madame de... more
A simple, brief introduction to New Criticism. The paper covers its definition, aspects, and how it differs from Russian formalism.
Paul Valéry afirmaba que la mayor aspiración de la poesía simbolista era recuperar, para el lenguaje, el bien que la música le había arrebatado. El presente ensayo explora el contenido de esa afirmación, extendiendo su sentido a la idea... more
Modernist Literature. The sixth part of the second volume offers a selection of the Modernist Literature from Joyce to Eliot. English Literature – An Anthology for Students. Volume 2 - From the Romanticism to the Twentieth Century.... more
A synthesis about T.S. Eliot's Tradition and the Individual Talent.
We often think of Mrs Dalloway or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as difficult books, originally published in small print runs for a handful of readers. But from the mid-1920s, these texts and others were available in cheap format... more
As a modernist poet writing in London during World War I and in the postwar period, Eliot takes the City of London as the background of his poems and presents a bleak image of the city through his lines. In "The love song of J. Alfred... more
Squeezing the Bodleian collection of Vivien Eliot's papers for anything of value they may contain, in the hope of seeing off any idea of publication, which would be almost impossible (they are scrapbooks, often of printed material), sad... more
The dramatic monologue would not immediately appear to be a form which is compatible with the interests of ecocriticism. Its focus on human actions, often occurring within created settings, seems at odds with a theory which promotes... more
Attraverso i secoli, il racconto evangelico della resurrezione di Gesù e degli eventi successivi è stato oggetto di una iconografia non di rado spinta al limite delle possibilità di rappresentazione, almeno nell'ambito di un'arte... more
The dissertation explores T.S.Eliot’s portrayals of human unhappiness and urban dreariness within his early poetry – specifically his published and unpublished work written during the period 1909-1915. The essay notes that Eliot’s early... more
This article analyses “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in the light of the American psychiatrist A. T. Beck’s diagnostic criteria and cognitive theories for interpreting and evaluating symptoms and levels of depression. This study... more
The research tackles the making of Eliot, mythology, tradition, and it traces all of the allusions in "The Waste Land" and explains the aims behind using allusions.
The current paper provides an analytical study of Eliot's poem, "The Hollow Men." The methods that have been employed in this research are textual and reader-response analyses. The poem has been explored from both approaches in order to... more
The young T. S. Eliot spent a year as a student in Paris, in 1910-1911. Why did he come there? What experiences did he have during that year? The paper focuses on Eliot's fascination for French poetry, his attending Bergson's lessons at... more
T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" appeared in 1922, Rilke's "Duino Elegies" in 1923. So both belong to the great decade of 'classical' Modernism in which many authors tried to account for, or even to compensate for the breakdown of the... more
Three issues of Poetry magazine, Chicago, published poems by T. S. Eliot which went towards his first volume, "Prufrock and Other Observations". But it appears that two others were rejected. What were they, and why?
A discussion of the critical reception of Eliot's poem The Waste Land
A literary analysis of structure and imagery in T.S. Eliot's 1922 epic poem The Waste Land
Focusing on the way the configurations of language allow us to conceive reality and inhabit a world, including the experience of temporality, this seminar will address the forms of historical synthesis that characterize modernist poetics.... more
The aim of the B. A. thesis called “The poetry of John Donne: T.S.Eliot as Critic and Poet” is to analyse Eliot’s view of John Donne in relation to his own poetry and critical work. This is also reflected in the structure of the paper.... more
The postwar disillusionment of the 1920s led many literary figures to voice out the predicament and moral dilemma that modern life faces. Of many poets of war, T.S. Eliot is a distinguished figure and a leading voice in picturing the... more