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The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot

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The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot

By: John Xiros Cooper

T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand the course of modern literature. This book provides the perfect introduction to key aspects of Eliot's life and work, as well as to the wider contexts of modernism in which he wrote. John Xiros Cooper explains how Eliot was influenced by the intellectual climate of both twentieth-century Britain and America, and how he became a key cultural figure on both sides of the Atlantic. The continuing controversies surrounding his writing and his thought are also addressed. With a useful guide to further reading, this is the most informative and accessible introduction to T. S. Eliot.

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Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

By: John Xiros Cooper

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Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

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Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues that in their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the modernist avant-garde epitomised the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural and economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial age, but, in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound historical irony. Its own characterising techniques, styles and experiments, deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very market culture which the first modernists opposed. In this broad-ranging 2004 study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors, including Joyce, Eliot, Stein and Barnes.

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Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

By: John Xiros Cooper

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T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

By: John Xiros Cooper

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T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

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Criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper shows how Eliot deliberately addressed a North Atlantic 'mandarinate' fearful of social disintegration during the politically turbulent 1930s. Almost immediately following publication, Four Quartets was accorded canonical status as a work that promised a personal harmony divorced from the painful disharmonies of the emerging postwar world. Cooper connects Eliot's careers as banker, director and editor to a much wider cultural agenda. He aimed to reinforce established social structures during a period of painful political transition. This powerful and original study re-establishes the public context in which Eliot's work was received and understood. It will become an essential reference work for all interested in a wider understanding of Eliot and of Anglo-American cultural relations.

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The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot

By: John Xiros Cooper

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T. S. Eliot

A Short Biography

By: John Worthen

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T. S. Eliot

A Short Biography

By: John Worthen

Biographical writing about Eliot is in a more confused and contested state than is the case with any other major twentieth-century writer. No major biography has been released since the publication of his early poems, Inventions of the March Hare, in 1996, which radically altered the reading public's perception of Eliot. There have been attempts to turn the American woman Emily Hale into the beloved woman of Eliot's middle years; and Eliot has also been blamed for the instability of his first wife and declared a closet homosexual. This biography frees Eliot from such distortions, as well as from his cold and unemotional image. It offers a sympathetic study of his first marriage which does not attempt to blame, but to understand; it shows how Eliot's poetry can be read for its revelations about his inner world. Eliot once wrote that every poem was an epitaph, meaning that it was the inscription on the tombstone of the experience which it commemorated. His poetry shows, however, that the deepest experiences of his life would not lie down and die, and that he felt condemned to write about them.John Worthen is the acclaimed author of D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider.

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1913368610

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The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell

By: John Rodden,John Rossi

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The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell

By: John Rodden,John Rossi

An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell - one of the most influential literary twentieth-century figures.

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052176923X

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Elliott Carter's Late Music

By: John Link

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Elliott Carter's Late Music

By: John Link

Elliott Carter was born four months after Orville Wright demonstrated the Wright Brothers' Flyer to the U.S. Army, and he died two months after the Voyager 1 spacecraft left the heliosphere at the threshold of interstellar space. Carter's remarkable longevity, and the unusual trajectory of his life and work through more than a century of disruptive change, has affected the reception history of his music in ways that we are only beginning to acknowledge. Over the course of a nearly eighty-year-long career, Carter leveraged his advantages and turned obstacles into opportunities with admirable persistence. He chose projects that not only interested him but also fit into the plans for artistic and professional development that he cultivated assiduously over decades. And he paid close attention to how his artistic objectives could be presented most effectively to the performers, listeners, and patrons on whom his career depended. Together with his wife Helen Frost-Jones Carter, he skillfully steered a course through the turbulent waters of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with steadily increasing success. The story of Carter's artistic life, as he told it and as it was promoted by several generations of advocates, is one of independence, uncompromising vision, and technical progress. It was astutely tailored to the beliefs and values of its intended audience and, as autobiography, it reports selectively and glosses over or omits events and attitudes deemed unhelpful in building Carter's reputation and authority, and promoting his music"--

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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

(Un)Timely Meditations

By: John McKeane

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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

(Un)Timely Meditations

By: John McKeane

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007) was a professor of philosophy, and also a poet, a translator and a playwright. His life and work were dedicated to the philosophical and political movements of the post-1968 era, from his communal life together with Jean-Luc Nancy to his collaborations with Jacques Derrida. These movements also carried him towards disparate modes of writing such as poetry and theatre. The tension between Lacoue-Labarthe's timely and untimely meditations governs the approach in this study, the first to attempt an accessible and comprehensive account of this forceful thinker.

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Routledge

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1351191179

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The Raymond Williams Reader

By: John Higgins

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The Raymond Williams Reader

By: John Higgins

This carefully-structured reader presents a survey of the whole body of Williams' existing work, providing existing readers with a new perspective on his writings, and new readers with the opportunity to explore his ideas in depth.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0631213104

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T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

By: John Xiros Cooper

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The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot

The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot

Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

Modernism and the Culture of Market Society

T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot

The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell

The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell

Elliott Carter's Late Music

Elliott Carter's Late Music

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

The Raymond Williams Reader

The Raymond Williams Reader

T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets

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