1st Edition

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

By Henry Michael Gott Copyright 2013
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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;

    Biography

    Henry Michael Gott