T.S. Eliot and our Turning World

In T. S. Eliot and Our Turning World, fifteen scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan examine Eliot's work in the context of his personal history and that of his century. Using both unpublished and newly released primary materials, they analyse and contextualise his poetry in relation to idealist philosophy, popular culture, anti-Semitism, feminism, and literary studies. One critic surveys Eliot's impressive but previously ignored contributions to radio journalism and several consider his controversial but assured centrality in the cultural life of the twentieth century.

Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J. S. Brooker ELIOT AND INNOCENCE/EXPERIENCE Eliot and the Reality of Childhood; M. Thormählen 'The Journey of the Magi' in the Context of Eliot's Religious Development; R. Germer ELIOT AND PHILOSOPHY Eliot and Heraclitus; W. Blissett Eliot's Reports on Kant: Reading the First and Second Critiques; J. S. Brooker & W. Charron Points of View, Objects, and Half-Objects: Eliot's Poetry at Merton College; S. Medcalf Buddhist Epistemology in T. S. Eliot's Theory of Poetry; T. Murata ELIOT AND THE OTHER ARTS Connections between Eliot and Major Composers: Stravinsky and Britten; P. Dickinson Shakespeare/Dante and Water/Music in The Waste Land; R. Malamud Eliot's Shakespeare and Eliot's Dante; D. Gervais ELIOT AND POPULAR CULTURE The Problem of Dullness: Eliot and the 'Lively Arts' in the 1920s; D. Chinitz Eliot on the Air: 'Culture' and the Challenges of Mass Communication; M. Coyle ELIOT AND ANTI-SEMITISM Eliot in the Dock; J. S. Brooker T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and the Weight of Apologia; D. M. Thompson ELIOT AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Rethinking 'Great Tom': T. S. Eliot and the Collaborative Impulse; R. Badenhausen T. S. Eliot and the Feminist Revision of the Modern(ist) Canon; T. Gibert APPENDIX T. S. Eliot's Radio Broadcasts, 1929-1963: A Chronological Checklist Works Consulted Index