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The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to THE WASTE LAND T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is often considered the most important poem written in English in the twentieth century. The poem dramatically shattered old patterns of form and style, proposed a new paradigm for poetry and poetic thought, demanded recognition from all literary quarters, and changed the ways in which it was possible to approach, read, and write poetry. The Waste Land helped defi ne the literary and artistic period known as modernism. This Companion is the fi rst dedicated to the work as a whole, offering thirteen new essays by an impressive group of international scholars on an extensive range of topics. Written in a style that is at once sophisticated and accessible, these fresh critical perspectives will serve as an invaluable guide for scholars, students, and general readers alike. Gabrielle McIntire is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Queen’s University, Canada. She is the author of Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and has published articles on T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Nella Larsen, and James Joyce in journals and collections including Modern Fiction Studies , Modernism/modernity , Narrative , and Callaloo . Her poetry has also appeared internationally, and she sits on the editorial boards of Twentieth-Century Literature and T. S. Eliot Studies Annual . A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to THE WASTE LAND © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE WASTE LAND EDITED BY GABRIELLE MCINTIRE Queen’s University, Canada © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107672574 © Cambridge University Press 2015 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2015 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land / [edited by] Gabrielle McIntire, Queen’s University, Canada. pages cm. – (Cambridge companions to literature) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-107-05067-9 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-107-67257-4 (paperback) 1. Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888–1965. The Waste Land . I. McIntire, Gabrielle, editor. PS 3509. L 43 W 3635 2015 821′.912–dc23 2014047360 ISBN 978-1-107-05067-9 Hardback ISBN 978-1-107-67257-4 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URL s for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information for Clara Sophia © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information CONTENTS Contributors page xi Acknowledgments xv Brief Chronology of Eliot’s Life xvii Introduction 1 Gabrielle McIntire PART i HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, AND PERSONAL CONTEXTS 1 “The World Has Seen Strange Revolutions Since I Died”: The Waste Land and the Great War 9 Jean-Michel Rabat é 2 Geographies of Space: Mapping and Reading the Cityscape 24 Spencer Morrison 3 “Mixing/Memory and Desire”: What Eliot’s Biography Can Tell Us 39 Lyndall Gordon 4 Religions East and West in The Waste Land 54 Barry Spurr 5 Popular Culture 69 David E. Chinitz and Julia E. Daniel PART ii POETIC TECHNIQUES AND METHODS 6 Form, Voice, and the Avant-Garde 87 Michael Levenson ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information Contents 7 Dialectical Collaboration: Editing The Waste Land 102 Jewel Spears Brooker 8 Doing Tradition in Different Voices: Pastiche in The Waste Land 116 Michael Coyle PART III CRITICAL AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES 9 Gender and Obscenity in The Waste Land 133 Rachel Potter 10 Trauma and Violence in The Waste Land 147 Richard Badenhausen 11 Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and New Subjectivities 162 Eve Sorum 12 The Waste Land as Ecocritique 178 Gabrielle McIntire CODA: The Waste Land ’s Afterlife: The Poem’s Reception in the Twentieth Century and Beyond 194 Anthony Cuda A Short Guide to Further Reading 211 Index 215 x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information CONTRIBUTORS Richard Badenhausen is Professor and Kim T. Adamson Chair at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where he also directs the honors program. He is the author of T. S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration (2009) and is working on a book-length study entitled T. S. Eliot’s Traumatic Texts . Jewel Spears Brooker, Professor Emerita, Eckerd College, has had visiting positions at Yale, Harvard, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Merton College, Oxford. She has published nine books, including Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism (1994), and is the coeditor of two volumes of Eliot’s Complete Prose (2014 and forthcoming). David E. Chinitz, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, is the author of T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003) and Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes (2013). He is the editor of A Companion to T. S. Eliot (2009) and coeditor, with Gail McDonald, of A Companion to Modernist Poetry (2014). Currently he is coediting, with Ronald Schuchard, The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, Volume 6: 1940–1946 . Michael Coyle is Professor of English at Colgate University. He is the founding President of the Modernist Studies Association and currently serves as President of the T. S. Eliot Society. His edited collections include Ezra Pound and African American Modernism (2001); Broadcasting Modernism , with Debra Rae Cohen (2009); and, with Steven Yao, Ezra Pound and Education (2012). He is also the author of Ezra Pound, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture (1995), and he writes broadly on modernist literature and jazz. Anthony Cuda is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann (2010) and the coeditor, with Ronald Schuchard, of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, Volume 2: The Perfect Critic, 1919–1926 (2014). xi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05067-9 - The Cambridge Companion to the Waste Land Edited by Gabrielle Mcintire Frontmatter More information Contributors Julia E. Daniel is Assistant Professor of Modern American Poetry at West Virginia University. Her current book project, Building Nature: City Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Modern American Poetry , combines her interests in ecocriticism and urban studies. Her work has appeared in A Companion to Modernist Poetry, Modern Drama , and the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association . Lyndall Gordon studied American literature at Columbia University and is a Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She is the author of two memoirs and six biographies, including The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot (1999, 2015) and Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds (2010). Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of A Genealogy of Modernism (1984), Modernism and the Fate of Individuality (1990), The Spectacle of Intimacy (coauthored with Karen Chase, 2000), and Modernism (2011). He has also edited The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (2000, 2011). Gabrielle McIntire is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Queen’s University, Canada. She is the author of Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.
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