Henry Michael Gott

Ascetic Modernism in the Work of T S Eliot and Gustave Flaubert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gott examines Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) in conjunction with Gustave Flaubert's La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874). He provides a highly original reading of both texts and argues that a stylistic affinity exists between the two works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781138663022
• ISBN-10: 1138663026
• Artikelnr.: 45331522

Autorenporträt

Henry Michael Gott

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Visual and Verbal Quotation in Flaubert and Eliot
Chapter 2 Figuring the Saint: Physical and Intellectual Representations of Asceticism
Chapter 3 The Empty Stage: Landscape and the Dramatic in La Tentation De Saint Antoine and The Waste Land
Chapter 4 The Ascetic Text of La Tentation De Saint Antoine and The Waste Land
Chapter 5 'Caught in the Circle of Desire': The Vortex as Ascetic Metaphor
conclusion Conclusion