Aethereal Rumours: T.S. Eliot's Physics and PoeticsBucknell University Press, 1998 - 318 ページ This study combines ideas from many different disciplines and historical periods to yield a broad and penetrating analysis of T. S. Eliot's thinking about the relation between the material and spiritual worlds. Lockerd demonstrates that Eliot developed a poetic theory based on his antidualistic belief that mind and matter are not entirely separate, a theory that emphasizes natural symbols such as the elements and the seasonsnonarbitrary symbols rooted in our physical experience. The book thus offers a forceful response to those who would see Eliot as a precursor of so-called postmodern literary theory. Instead, Lockerd finds in Eliot's poetic theory and practice an attempt to achieve what is called in Four Quartets the "impossible union / Of spheres of existence." |
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Abstract Materialism and Incarnational Symbolism | 15 |
Polis and Cosmos in Prufrock and Other Observations | 83 |
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