T.S. Eliot and the Essay

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G. Douglas Atkins here offers an original consideration of T.S. Eliot's essay as a form of embodied thinking. A combination of literature and philosophy, the genre of the essay holds within itself a great tension--that between truth and creative prose. And, as Atkins explains, these conflicting forces of truth and creativity exist not only within the literary format itself but also within the writers and their relationships with the genre, making essay writing a wonderfully enriching ""impure a…

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Full title :T.S. Eliot and the Essay.

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Publication Date:2010.

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Publisher(s):Baylor University Press
Place of Publication:Waco
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

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Description:1 online resource (158 pages).

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ISBN:9781602584815, 1602584818
oclc:on1058908512
LC Classification:PS3509.L43 ǂb Z599 2010eb
Dewey Decimal:821/.912

Cover ; Half Title, About the Series, Title Page, Copyright ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Eliot the Essayist; 1. Against (Pure) Transcendence: The Essay and Embodied Truth; 2. Eliot, Montaigne, and the Essay: The Matter of Personality; 3. Turning the Essay: "Tradition and the Individual Talent"; 4. The Perfect Critic and Imperfect Critics: The Essay, Criticism, and Impurity; 5. Eliot's Prose Voice: The Critical Essayist as Medium; 6. "Restoring / With a New Verse the Ancient Rhyme"; 7. Four Quartets: The Poem as Essay.

8. The Impure Art of Four Quartets: Where Literature and Philosophy MeetConclusion: Faring Forward, Exploring Still: Participation Instead of Puritan's Progress; Notes; Works Cited; Index.