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T.S. Eliot, Poetry, and Earth: The Name of the Lotos Rose

T.S. Eliot, Poetry, and Earth: The Name of the Lotos Rose

Terblanche, Etienne

Hardcover

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0739189573
ISBN13: 9780739189573
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: May 12 2016
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

T. S. Eliot enjoyed a profound relationship with Earth. Criticism of his work does not suggest that this exists in his poetic oeuvre. Writing into this gap, Etienne Terblanche demonstrates that Eliot presents Earth as a process in which humans immerse themselves. The Waste Land and Four Quartets in particular re-locate the modern reader towards mindfulness of Earth's continuation and one's radical becoming within that process. But what are the potential implications for ecocriticism? Based on its careful reading of the poems from a new material perspective, this book shows how vital it has become for ecocriticism to be skeptical about the extent of its skepticism, to follow instead the twentieth century's

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