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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"The Waste Land"”.
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T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land", and Yoga Philosophy
… T.S. Eliot put a year into deep study of the <em>Yoga Sutras</em> with renowned scholar James Haughton Woods. Yoga, defined in the <em>Sutras</em> as the practice of stopping “the fluctuations of the mind-stuff” (Patañjali 8), provides the possibility of hope and equanimity in Eliot’s …
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Visualising 'The Waste Land': Discovering a Praxis of Adaptation
This research examines the issues and visual processes that arise in the production of self-representations derived from literary texts. The construction of a series of photographic and video installations drawing upon T. S Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' (1922) allowed for the exploration and …
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Echoes of Eliot's The waste land in three modern American novels
… essay demonstrates how three popular writers of the twentieth century have created novels that contain echoes of Eliot's poem. They are F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), and John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown (1933). I chose these …
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The poet in transformation: Dantean aesthetics in T.S. Eliot's <i>The Waste Land</i>
… references to Dante, and few have credited the influence of a Dantean progress narrative across Eliot’s poem <em>The Waste Land</em>. This thesis broadly analyzes the principles of Dante’s aesthetic in the poem while analyzing the Sibyl, the Hanged Man, and the Prajapati parable for their …
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Words without End: The Development of T. S. Eliot's Poetics from "The Waste Land" to "Four Quartets"
… provocatively claims: "It is this break of the covenant between word and world which constitutes one of the very few genuine revolutions of spirit in Western history and which defines modernity itself." As the "high modernist" poet par excellence, I propose to read both of T. S. Eliot's long …
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T. S. Eliot's aesthetics of immediacy: Language and perception in Knowledge and Experience, The Waste Land and Four Quartets
This thesis offers a reading of Eliot as a philosopher and poet whose creative career develops against the backdrop of a phenomenological world-vision which identifies reality with experience and defines experience as the interpretative process of perception. Eliot’s career appears as a series of …
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The Womb in The Waste Land: Abortion as Social Failure in “A Game of Chess” * Another Radical Feminism: In Defense of the Woman-Mother *Love in the Convent: Female Friendship and the Failure of Marriage in The History of the Nun
THE WOMB IN THE WASTE LAND: ABORTION AS SOCIAL FAILURE IN “A GAME OF CHESS” is most concerned with T.S. Eliot’s use of the residents in the aforementioned sequence to communicate his idea that public discourse in England was waging war on the nation’s social and psychic interior by promoting …
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Teaching the Sermon: Lyric, Narrative, and T. S. Eliot
This thesis is an examination of the subsection of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land that is aptly named "The Fire Sermon." The hybrid nature of this famous poem makes it open to a variety of readings, and these readings are often conflicting. Thus, the work, in spite of being a seminal text in …
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Poetry, Place, and Painting in the Works of Frank O'Hara
… both as a man and a poet, as Eliot's antithesis. Eventually, O'Hara would create a modern urban poetry that repudiated Eliot's poetry and the attitudes it conveyed, a repudiation that culminates in O'Hara's Second Avenue, a modern urban epic that both emulates and is antithetical to …
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The poetics of cultural healing: Derek Walcott's Omeros and the modernist epic
This thesis examines the complex intersections between Derek Walcott’s Omeros and modernist versions of the epic. Critics generally acknowledge the pervasive presence of modernist allusions in Walcott’s early work, but see the relevance of modernism diminishing as Walcott develops his “mature” …
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Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation
This study explores formal and thematic representations of ruins in twentieth century literary texts, including James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck.” Analyzing these texts and concepts of ruins in the …
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The Modernist Defense of Poetry in Prose and Verse
The defense of poetry is a centuries-old genre that shapes the verse of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams. Arguments from the defense of poetry become models for the imagery in their poems and for their own poetic voices. These arguments include defending poiesis …
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To Reach the Unreachable Stars: Reexamining the Shared Arthurian Vision of C. S. Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy and Raymond Chandler's Marlowe Novels
… Raymond Chandler and C. S. Lewis seem to be a rather strange pairing, the ways in which they both borrow from Arthurian literature and use the myth to speak to their cultural moment are strikingly similar. Following T. S. Eliot’s use of the Grail quest in <em>The Waste Land</em> (which set a …
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Modern mimesis: encounters between British and Greek poetry, 1922-1952
This thesis considers the crisis in the portrayal of national spaces and national identities, insecure in the multiplicity of their cultural roots and thus diasporic and hybrid, from 1922, a year marked for its importance in the disintegration of imperial Britain and in the positioning of Greece on …
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Ο μάντης Τειρεσίας στην αρχαία τραγωδία: από την Τύφλωση στην Πνευματική Όραση
… μέχρι τον Tiresias του Guillaume Apollinaire, το The Waste Land του T.S. Eliot και τον κινηματογραφικό Edipo Re του Pier Paolo Pasolini. Τον εντοπίζουμε επίσης στη σύγχρονη ποίηση του Γιάννη Ρίτσου αλλά και στη μουσική του Θανάση Παπακωνσταντίνου, όπου ο Τειρεσίας λειτουργεί ως σύμβολο υπαρξιακής …
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A Practice-led Study of Design Principles for Screen Typography — with reference to the teachings of Emil Ruder
… knowledge does not sufficiently address the design aspects specific to screen typography such as 3D space, motion, time, sound and interactivity, and that traditional design principles require adaptation and expansion for screen. This practice-led study presents a broad critical review …
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