T.S. Eliot and the Failure to Connect: Satire on Modern Misunderstandings

by G. Douglas Atkins

Book Overview

Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and inter-textual, this book is a bold analysis of satire of modern forms of misunderstanding.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137375744
• ISBN13: 9781137375742
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"