"Over a dozen new volumes of T S Eliot's poetry, prose, and letters have been published since the death of his widow in 2012. This book presents unabashedly fresh approaches to Eliot, while simultaneously guiding readers through the new materials that are available for the first time outside of restricted archives. Eliot, the figurehead of literary modernism, continues to be someone whom critics love to hate (Misogynist! Conservative! Anti-Semite!) and readers love to devour (Profound! Revolutionary! Resonant!). Why does one figure elicit such different responses? Eliot's influence on literary studies and modern poetry is immense, and yet 90% of Eliot scholarship has been written without knowledge of 90% of what Eliot actually wrote in his lifetime, as Ronald Schuchard, the general editor of the Complete Prose, has estimated. Eliot Now collects new and established voices in Eliot studies at the centenary of The Waste Land to begin to correct that oversight, integrating contemporary critical approaches with careful attention to the newly published materials. Whether grappling with the controversial new two-volume Poems, narrating the experience of opening Eliot's letters in the Emily Hale papers (called the "most famous sealed archive in the world"), or re-reading Eliot works through ecocritical or trans* lenses, Eliot Now shows how this most renowned 20th-century literary figure continues to change the way we read literature today"--
Over a dozen new volumes of T. S. Eliot's poetry, prose, and letters have been published in the past decade. This collection presents unabashedly fresh approaches to Eliot, while simultaneously guiding readers through the new materials that are available for the first time outside of restricted archives. Eliot, the figurehead of literary modernism, continues to be someone whom critics love to hate (Misogynist! Reactionary! Anti-Semite!) and readers love to devour (Profound! Revolutionary! Resonant!). Why does one artist elicit such different responses?
Eliot Now collects new and established voices in Eliot studies, integrating contemporary critical approaches with careful attention to the newly published materials. Whether grappling with the controversial new two-volume Poems, narrating the experience of opening Eliot's letters in the Emily Hale papers (until 2020 the most famous sealed archive in the world), or rereading his works through ecocritical or trans studies lenses, Eliot Now shows how this most effusively celebrated and heatedly criticized 20th-century writer continues to change the way we read literature in the 21st century. The collection concludes with six award-winning contemporary poets considering the influence of The
Waste Land on poetry today.
Recenzijas
A provocation and an inspiration, Eliot Now is the essential guide to reading T.S. Eliot in the twenty-first century. * Rebecca Beasley, Professor of Modernist Studies, University of Oxford, UK * This is an important book which should appeal to a wide range of scholars--those new to Eliot's poetry and prose as well as those who've been reading his work for many years. The collection makes use of the recently published Eliot materials now available to us all and also considers Eliot's work from fresh perspectives * John Whittier-Ferguson, Professor of English, University of Michigan, USA * Multifaceted, polyvocal, and heterogenous, this thrilling collection speaks in different voices, from different viewpoints, like the endlessly proliferating poet who is its subject. Its centripetal force will unleash further debates and provocations for years to come. * Jahan Ramazani, University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor at the University of Virginia, USA * Eliot Now aims to restart the project of reading and understanding the most dominant and the most enigmatic Anglophone poet of the 20th century. Drawing on the vast amounts of previously unknown materialpoems, prose, and lettersthat have appeared over the last few decades, the contributors to this collection reopen old questions and propose new ones. Some aspects of the life, particularly the long relationship with Emily Hale, emerge more fully known and yet remain more deeply mysterious than ever before. And readings of the poetry, especially by a group of contemporary poets, show why it still has the freshness that first made it so startling. * Michael North, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UCLA, USA * The collection is scrupulously honest in its willingness to take its readers into the darkest parts of Eliots writings; its courageous, too, in the range of critical approaches it welcomes, taking us deep into new archives and perspective-changing historical records and also allowing for more associative, more freewheeling meditations on the ways we might read Eliot now. * Eliot Annual *
Papildus informācija
Eliot Nowthe first collection of essays written with full access to T. S. Eliots recently published Complete Prose and Poemscombines contemporary critical approaches with a sustained inquiry into the new archive of this major modernist poet, transforming the Eliot we thought we knew.
I. New Eliot
1. Introduction (Megan Quigley & David E. Chinitz)
2. The New Poems of T. S. Eliot, Mark Ford
3. The Complete Prose, Anthony Cuda
4. Eliots Divided Life, Frances Dickey
5. Eliot as Public Intellectual, Jeremy Noel-Tod
II. Eliot in Theory
6. No empty bottles: Eliot's Ambivalent Anthropocene, Julia Daniel
7. Eliot and Translation Theory, Vera Kutzinski
8. Whiteness and Religious Conversion in Four Quartets, Ann Marie Jakubowski
9. Tiresias and TERFism Today: The Waste Lands Modernist Feminine, Cis and
Trans, Emma Heaney
10. Eliot in the Dadabase, Elyse Graham & Michelle Taylor
11. Of Corpses, Corpuses, and Career Capital: Eliot and Print Culture,
Michael Whitworth
12. The Always Inconvenient Dead: Lyric Theory and Eliots Early Verse, Paul
Franz
13. Eliots Political Theology, C. D. Blanton
14. The Perfect Post-Critic?, Sumita Chakraborty
III. Looking Ahead
15. The Future of Tradition? Eliot and the Condition of the Humanities, Simon
During
16. Eliot, Brexit, and the Idea of Europe, Jason Harding
17. Mature Fans Steal: Eliots Fictions, Megan Quigley
18. Afterword: Strange God: Eliot, Now, Urmila Seshagiri
19. The Waste Land Centenary: Poets on Eliot, James Longenbach, Carl
Phillips, Lesley Wheeler, Craig Raine, Hannah Sullivan, Allison Rollins
Megan Quigley is the author of Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language (2015) and the editor of two clusters of essays on #MeToo, T. S. Eliot, and Modernism in Modernism/modernity Print+ (2019, 2020). She has published essays in the James Joyce Quarterly, Modernism/modernity, Philosophy and Literature, Poetics Today, LARB, the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, and nonsite. She is an Associate Professor of English at Villanova University.
David E. Chinitz, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, is the author of T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003) and Which Sin To Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes(2013). His Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, Volume 6: The War Years, 1940-1946 (co-edited with Ronald Schuchard) won the 2019 MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition. He has served as president of the Modernist Studies Association and the International T. S. Eliot Society.
