Theory and Personality
The Significance of T. S. Eliot's Criticism
1st Edition
Published on 13. January 2014
148 pages
978-1-4725-1004-4 (ISBN)
Description
T. S. Eliot's literary criticism is often described as 'the criticism of a poet'. Mr Lee asks what happens if we take that description seriously and read the criticism as if it was as much the expression of the man, it its way, as the poetry; continuous with the poetry and the preoccupations of the poetry. This essay in interpretation is an attempt to follow out such a programme and to account for the contradictions and seemingly discrepant utterances that Eliot himself left unexplained. The opening chapter offers an outline of Eliot's main 'theories' and the connection between them, and subsequent chapters deal with critical approaches to Eliot; 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' and impersonality; Eliot's ideas on personality; and the relation between individual personality and society.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4725-1004-4 (9781472510044)
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11/2013
Bloomsbury Academic
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Person
Brian Lee is Senior Lecturer in English at Newcastle-upon-Tyne University.
Content
Prefatory: Eliot's Four 'Theories'
I Critical Responsibility and Critical Approach
II Impersonality: 'Sacrifice' or 'Extinction'?
III Personality and the Proper Relation
IV Conclusion: Self and Society
Bibliography
Notes
Index
I Critical Responsibility and Critical Approach
II Impersonality: 'Sacrifice' or 'Extinction'?
III Personality and the Proper Relation
IV Conclusion: Self and Society
Bibliography
Notes
Index
