| [NT 42944] Record Type: |
[NT 8598] Electronic resources
: [NT 40817] monographic
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| [NT 47348] Title Information: |
T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence |
| [NT 47261] Author: |
KrockelCarl., |
| [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| [NT 47351] Place of Publication: |
Basingstoke, Houndmills Hampshire New York |
| [NT 47263] Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| [NT 47352] Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| [NT 47264] Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 241 p.) |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
English literature - History and criticism. - 20th century - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war. - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
Psychic trauma in literature. - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain. - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
Literature. - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
LITERARY CRITICISM - European - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
LITERARY CRITICISM - Poetry. - |
| [NT 47266] Subject: |
LITERARY CRITICISM - General. - |
| [NT 51399] Personal Subject: |
Eliot - T. S. - Criticism and interpretation. - |
| [NT 51399] Personal Subject: |
Lawrence - D. H. - Criticism and interpretation. - |
| [NT 51458] Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230307759An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| [NT 47265] Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| [NT 51398] Summary: |
This book reads English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war down to the intimate details of their lives, and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation. Following the Modernist tradition rooted in Baudelaire, Eliot's poetry developed as a reaction to the modernity of industrial civilisation, to that of industrial warfare in the 'Sweeney' poems, 'Gerontion' and The Waste Land. Meanwhile, Lawrence redrafted The Rainbow as a riposte to the First World War then in The First "Women in Love" represented its devastation of Europe, and himself. He spent the last decade of his life both acting out and working through the violence of the war, to suggest an alternative to its impending recurrence. From 'The Hollow Men' to Little Gidding Eliot's poetry reached towards a climax of confrontation and disavowal regarding the cost of the First World War, and its successor. This study shifts between disciplinary boundaries of history, biography, criticism and culture: from the traumatic imprint of historical events upon the artist's act of writing, to the interpretation of this writing by a community which remains unable to articulate the original shock of these events. It draws upon archives in Britain and the USA, and the most recent authorised editions of Lawrence and Eliot's writings, to provide a wealth of new critical interpretations for both students and specialists. |
| [NT 50961] ISBN: |
9780230307759electronic bk. |
| [NT 50961] ISBN: |
0230307752electronic bk. |
| [NT 50961] ISBN: |
9780230316706 |
| [NT 50961] ISBN: |
0230316700 |
| [NT 50961] ISBN: |
9780230291577Cloth |
| [NT 50961] ISBN: |
0230291570Cloth |
| [NT 60779] Content Note: |
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Modernism in Crisis: The Rainbow Testimony before Trauma: Eliot's Poetry up to 1915 Testimony as History: The First 'Women in Love' Eliot's War Poetry: Hysteria to The Waste Land Working Through: Lawrence 1918 to 1930 Trauma Transfigured: The Hollow Men to Little Gidding Conclusion: The Legacy of War on the Legacy of Modernism Bibliography Index -- |