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critical views the waste land Flashcards

(9 cards)

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‘as Eliot tears literary voices from one context to relocate them in another, he forces himself, his readers and even his sources to enter into a dialogue’

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Dr Andrew Green- suggests that Eliot attempts to bring in a plethora of references in order to stimulate a cultural awakening following the horrific world war which plagued Europe and provided fertile grounds for TWL

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the references ‘create the ongoing dialogue between the present and the past is at the very heart of TWL’

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Andrew Green- speaks to the central technique and theme: intertextuality and historical continuity- creating a continuity of references

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Hannah Sullivan 1 (Cleopatra)

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‘behind every scene is some other scene, so the ‘she’ who sits languidly in a chair at the beginning of ‘A Game of Chess’ is set up for tragedy by the allusion of Cleopatra

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Hannah Sullivan 2 (marriage)

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‘the unhappy modern marriages seen in the snatches of conversation’

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Adrian Barlow 1 (conversation with readers and writers)

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‘all Eliot’s poems are conversations, not just with the reader, but with other writers and other texts’

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Peter Howarth

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Eliot feels that ‘other people are imposing on us their idea of who we really are’

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Keverne Smith (Emily and Vivienne)

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‘when he married Vivien in 1915 he was probably still in love with Emily Hale’

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Rick Rylance (symbolises of TWL)

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‘the wasteland also symbolises spiritual, egological and social desolation’

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Barbra Morden

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‘there is a neurotic society, as ‘synthetic’ as their perfumes, moving to the contrapuntal rhythms of jazz while the edifice of Western culture crumbles around them’

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