Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context

by Louis Menand

Book Overview

A study of a literary success, and the forces that combine to create a successful literary movement, Discovering Modernism places T.S. Eliot in his cultural context to discover why his poetry and criticism answered the needs of a particular moment. Menand's analysis, which includes a reevaluation of the influence of Eliot's doctoral dissertation in philosophy on his later work, yields fresh readings of some familiar features of Eliot's style--the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195057171
• ISBN13: 9780195057171
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"