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 if philosophy on his later work, yields fresh readings of some familiar features of Elito's style--the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195040694
• ISBN13: 9780195040692
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.