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
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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