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Mastery and escape : T.S. Eliot and the dialectic of modernism / Jewel Spears Brooker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585083193
  • 9780585083193
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mastery and escape.DDC classification:
  • 821/.912 20
LOC classification:
  • PS3509.L43 Z64545 1994eb
Other classification:
  • 18.05
Online resources:
Contents:
Dispensationalism and the invention of history -- The mind of Europe: anxiety, crisis, and therapy -- Mastery and escape: Eliot's dialectical imagination -- Dialectical pedagogy: teaching the Waste land.
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Summary: This book examines modernism as a cultural and literary phenomenon. Jewel Spears Brooker distinguishes between two groups of modernists, one consisting mostly of exiles and characterized by internationalism and intellectual complexity, the other comprising primarily artists who consciously resist the aesthetic and political tendencies of the first group.
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