Reading "The Waste Land": Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

by Jewel Spears Brooker

Book Overview

This study of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land guides the reader through the poem line by line, taking into account a number of previous interpretations. Aims to offer a part-by-part analysis of the poem with periodic summations and a meditation on the limits of interpretation and the problematic nature of reading in the late 20th century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870238035
• ISBN13: 9780870238031
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher