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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Murder in the Cathedral."”.
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Agricultural approaches to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets.
This project considers the convergence of T. S. Eliot's agrarian and Anglo-Catholic views in Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets. Drawing on Jeremy Diaper's book T. S. Eliot and Organicism, I explore how Eliot performs and communicates his agrarian politics through these works and how his …
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Eliot through Tolkien: Estrangement, Verse Drama, and the Christian Path in the Modern Era
This thesis explores the function of T. S. Eliot’s use of verse drama as an estranging mechanism that enables his exploration of questions of spiritual moment on the Modern stage. J.R.R. Tolkien’s theory of fantasy, as outlined in his essay “On Fairy Stories,” serves as the framework for my …
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THE MORAL ARGUMENT OF T. S. ELIOT'S "FOUR QUARTETS" (BRADLEY, ETHICS, NEO-HEGELIANISM, ROYCE).
… study attempts to establish a connection between the moral philosophy of F. H. Bradley, particularly as expressed in his Ethical Studies and modified in the teaching of Josiah Royce, and the moral thought of Eliot's poetic writings, beginning with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," culminating …
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Visions of Origins and Ends: Personhood in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, John Heath-Stubbs, and Geoffrey Hill
In this thesis, I explore the frontiers of the human condition in a secular age through the poetry of T.S. Eliot, discovering that it is in visions of protology and eschatology that Eliot constructs a theological anthropology, challenged and developed by his poetic successors Geoffrey Hill and John …
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Human hagiography : the saint figure in modernist British literature.
Somewhat unexpectedly, saints' lives provided rich material for literary writing in the first half of the 20th century or modernist period. This study examines commonalities in how George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited …
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Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism, and British Theatrical Modernism, 1900-1964
<p>Engaging and Evading the Bard is about British theatrical modernism and its ambivalent relationship to Shakespeare. The conventional narrative of early twentieth-century British theater and drama situates their rise within the broad European context of Continental artistic developments, such as …