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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: 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 |
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| 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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