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Mastery and escape : T.S. Eliot and the dialectic of modernism

Author: Jewel Spears Brooker
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book examines modernism as a cultural and literary phenomenon. Jewel Spears Brooker distinguishes between two groups of modernists, one consisting mostly of exiles and characterized by internationalism and intellectual complexity, the other comprising primarily artists who consciously resist the aesthetic and political tendencies of the first group.
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Brooker, Jewel Spears, 1940-
Mastery and escape.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994
(OCoLC)624998856
Online version:
Brooker, Jewel Spears, 1940-
Mastery and escape.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994
(OCoLC)632014332
Named Person: T S Eliot; Thomas S Eliot
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jewel Spears Brooker
ISBN: 0870239058 9780870239052 155849040X 9781558490406
OCLC Number: 29520915
Description: xi, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Dispensationalism and the invention of history --
The mind of Europe: anxiety, crisis, and therapy --
Mastery and escape: Eliot's dialectical imagination --
Dialectical pedagogy: teaching the Waste land.
Responsibility: Jewel Spears Brooker.

Abstract:

This book examines modernism as a cultural and literary phenomenon. Jewel Spears Brooker distinguishes between two groups of modernists, one consisting mostly of exiles and characterized by internationalism and intellectual complexity, the other comprising primarily artists who consciously resist the aesthetic and political tendencies of the first group.

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