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From Philosophy to Poetry

TS Eliot's Study of Knowledge and Experience

By: Donald J. Childs

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From Philosophy to Poetry

TS Eliot's Study of Knowledge and Experience

By: Donald J. Childs

Eliot is the rare case of a great poet who was also an academic philosopher and Professor Child's study examines the relationship between his writing of poetry and his philosophical pursuits, in particular his lifelong occupation with the work of F. H. Bradley, Henri Bergson and William James. This account also considers the reception of Eliot's writing in philosophy and argues that the study of this work has significantly entered recent Eliot criticism. Overall, this volume provides a new reading of Eliot's famous poems, his literary criticism and social commentary.

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0485115506

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9780485115505

Modernism and Eugenics

Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration

By: Donald J. Childs

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Modernism and Eugenics

Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the Culture of Degeneration

By: Donald J. Childs

In Modernism and Eugenics, first published in 2001, Donald Childs shows how Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. Childs traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, The Waste Land and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. The language of eugenics moves, he claims, between public discourse and personal perspectives. It informs Woolf's theorization of woman's imagination; in Eliot's poetry, it pictures as a nightmare the myriad contemporary eugenical threats to humankind's biological and cultural future. And for Yeats, it becomes integral to his engagement with the occult and his commitment to Irish Nationalism. This is an interesting study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers.

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284

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Cambridge University Press

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0521806011

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9780521806015

T. S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover

By: Donald J. Childs

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T. S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover

By: Donald J. Childs

Based upon manuscript sources and the uncollected prose writings, as well as the published works, this is a profound exploration of Eliot's life-long preoccupation with mysticism. The author advances new readings of the familiar poems and essays through attention to Eliot's concern in poetry and prose with his roles as mystic, son and lover.

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1472537467

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9781472537461

The Birth of New Criticism

Conflict and Conciliation in the Early Work of William Empson, I.A. Richards, Robert Graves, and Laura Riding

By: Donald J. Childs

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The Birth of New Criticism

Conflict and Conciliation in the Early Work of William Empson, I.A. Richards, Robert Graves, and Laura Riding

By: Donald J. Childs

Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as New Criticism - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In The Birth of New Criticism Donald Childs challenges this consensus and provides a new and authoritative narrative of the movement's origins. At the centre stand Robert Graves and Laura Riding, two poet-critics who have been written out of the history of New Criticism. Childs brings to light the long-forgotten early criticism of Graves to detail the ways in which his interpretive methods and ideas evolved into the practice of "close reading," demonstrating that Graves played such a fundamental part in forming both Empson's and Richards's critical thinking that the story of twentieth-century literary criticism must be re-evaluated and re-told. Childs also examines the important influence that Riding's work had on Graves, Empson, and Richards, establishing the importance of this long-neglected thinker and critic. A provocative and cogently argued work, The Birth of New Criticism is both an important intellectual history of the movement and a sharply observed account of the cultural politics of its beginnings and legacy.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773589244

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9780773589247

Europe in the Seventeenth Century

By: Donald Pennington

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Europe in the Seventeenth Century

By: Donald Pennington

As before, the second edition of this widely-used survey is in two main parts. The first analyses the major themes of seventeenth-century European history on a continent-wide basis. The second part moves on to outline political, diplomatic and military events in the various states and nations of the time. For the second edition all the chapters have been rewritten to take account of recent scholarship. Moreover, many new topics are discussed: the family; crime; the impact of printing; climate; population and social mobility; Islam in seventeenth-century Europe. Throughout, the book emphasises current lines of research and controversy to illustrate that the history of the period is a process of enquiry and argument rather than incontrovertible fact.

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Routledge

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1317870980

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9781317870982

Book's by Donald J. Childs

From Philosophy to Poetry

From Philosophy to Poetry

Modernism and Eugenics

Modernism and Eugenics

T. S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover

T. S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover

The Birth of New Criticism

The Birth of New Criticism

Europe in the Seventeenth Century

Europe in the Seventeenth Century

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