T.S. Eliot and the poetics of evolution : sub/versions of classicism, culture, and progress

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T.S. Eliot and the poetics of evolution : sub/versions of classicism, culture, and progress

Title remainder

sub/versions of classicism, culture, and progress

Statement of responsibility

Lois A. Cuddy

Creator

• Cuddy, Lois A

Subject

• Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence
• Eliot, T. S., (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Eliot, T. S., (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Knowledge | Natural history
• Eliot, T. S., (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Knowledge | Science
• Evolution (Biology) in literature
• Evolution in literature
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Poetics
• Poetics -- History -- 20th century
• Literature and science -- England -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Cuddy examines how the nineteenth-century union of evolution, history, and myth became Eliot's definition of the Western Tradition from Homer to the present. Homer's Odyssey and the tradition it inspired became one of Eliot's most successful paradigms for historical re/vision of women, father/son relationships, cultural evolution, time, and poet's struggle with words." "Guided by Eliot's own allusions and references to specific authors and historical moments, Cuddy adds a feminist, cultural, and intertextual perspective to the familiar critical interpretations of Eliot's work in order to reread poems and plays through nineteenth-century ideologies and knowledge set against our own time. By considering the implications and consequences of Eliot's culturally approved assumptions, this study further reveals how Eliot was trapped between the idea of Evolution as a unifying project and the reality of his own and his culture's hierarchical (and fragmenting) beliefs about class, gender, religion, and race. Cuddy concludes by exploring how this conflict undermined Eliot's mission of unity and influenced his (and Modernism's) place in history."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

821/.912

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3509.L43

LC item number

Z658 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography