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1997

English Language and Literature

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Reading The Wreckage: De-Encrypting Eliot's Aesthetics Of Empire, Paul Douglass Apr 1997

Reading The Wreckage: De-Encrypting Eliot's Aesthetics Of Empire, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

The writer examines an aesthetics of empire evident in Eliot's The Waste Land. He contends that though this work's formal innovations appear “revolutionary,” its aesthetics fit into modernism's reactionary character and reflect the cultural politics of the British conservatism that Eliot had adopted. In decoding the poem's fragments and allusions, he illustrates Eliot's preoccupation with empire. He also shows how The Waste Land may be seen as part of a British literary tradition of “reading the wreckage” that goes back at least to Edward Volney's Ruins (1791).


Bionic Eye: The Resources And Limits Of The Cinematic Apparatus, Paul Douglass Jan 1997

Bionic Eye: The Resources And Limits Of The Cinematic Apparatus, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.


Shaw For The Utopians, Capek For The Anti-Utopians, Julie A. Sparks Jan 1997

Shaw For The Utopians, Capek For The Anti-Utopians, Julie A. Sparks

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.