What the Thunder Said (eBook)

How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern

Jed Rasula (Autor)

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2022
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22578-4 (ISBN)

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A rich cultural history of the creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpieceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. ';But,' as Jed Rasula writes, ';The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern.' In What the Thunder Said, Rasula tells the story of how The Waste Land changed poetry forever and how this cultural bombshell served as a harbinger of modernist revolution in all the arts, from abstraction in visual art to atonality in music.From its famous opening, ';April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land,' to its closing Sanskrit mantra, ';Shantih shantih shantih,' The Waste Land combined singular imagery, experimental technique, and dense allusions, boldly fulfilling Ezra Pound's injunction to ';make it new.' What the Thunder Said traces the origins, reception, and enduring influence of the poem, from its roots in Wagnerism and French Symbolism to the way its strangely beguiling music continues to inspire readers. Along the way, we learn about Eliot's storied circle, including Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and Bertrand Russell, and about poets like Mina Loy and Marianne Moore, whose innovations have proven as consequential as those of the ';men of 1914.'Filled with fresh insights and unfamiliar anecdotes, What the Thunder Said recovers the explosive force of the twentieth century's most influential poem.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 32 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Adjective • Aldous Huxley • Allusion • annoyance • aphorism • Army • Arnaut Daniel • Arthur Cravan • Arthur Rimbaud • Arthur Symons • a season in hell • assonance • Atheism • August Strindberg • avant-garde • Ballad of the Goodly Fere • Bayreuth • Belle Époque • beret • Blaise Cendrars • Caresse Crosby • carl sandburg • Charles Baudelaire • Charles Demuth • charles olson • Charles Reznikoff • Chronophotography • Clive Bell • Conrad Aiken • Consummation • Cuala Press • Cy Twombly • Dada • Darius Milhaud • Demimonde • Democritus • De Profundis (letter) • Der Ring des Nibelungen • Der Wind • D. H. Lawrence • Edgell Rickword • Eloquence • E. M. Forster • Epithalamion (poem) • erudition • Essay • Eunuch • Eustace Mullins • evocation • Existentialism • Ezra Pound • fauvism • F. L. Lucas • Floyd Dell • Ford Madox Ford • Fredric Wertham • F. S. Flint • Gelett Burgess • George Antheil • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • gerontion • Gigolo • Gilbert Murray • Guillaume Apollinaire • Hart Crane • Hector Berlioz • Hellen • Henri Bergson • Herbert Spencer • historical figure • H. L. Mencken • Hugh Kenner • Hugh Ross Williamson • hugh selwyn mauberley • iambic pentameter • imagism • In Custody (novel) • initial • Invidia • Irish Literary Revival • irving babbitt • James Abbott McNeill Whistler • James Huneker • jeremiad • John Crowe Ransom • John Masefield • John Middleton Murry • John Peale Bishop • Joseph Moncure March • Joseph Nye • Journey of the Magi • Karl Shapiro • Kathleen Raine • Kurt Schwitters • Kurt Weill • lingua franca • Lothario • Louis MacNeice • Louis Untermeyer • Lucretius • Ludwig Tieck • Lytton Strachey • malcolm cowley • Manifesto • Manifesto of Futurism • Marcel Broodthaers • Marcel Duchamp • Mario Praz • Mea culpa • Mr. • My Ruin • Mythopoeia • nancy cunard • New Criticism • new idea • New York Herald Tribune • Nian Rebellion • Nietzsche contra Wagner • obscurantism • on war • padraic colum • Parody • Parsifal • P. D. Ouspensky • pen name • Pierre Leroux • Poetry • Prometheus • Publication • Quotation • Randall Jarrell • rebuke • reproducibility • Revolution • Revue • Rhyme • Richard Aldington • ripostes • Robert Bridges • Robert Browning • Robert Frost • Rorschach Test • Rosicrucianism • Rupert Brooke • Sherwood Anderson • Stimmung • Symbolist Manifesto • Tatlin's Tower • T. E. Hulme • The Act of Creation • The Birth of Tragedy • The Egoist (periodical) • The Machiavellian Moment • The Waste Land • The World as Will and Representation • Thomas Carlyle • Thus Spoke Zarathustra • time capsule • Title page • Tragedy • Tristan Tzara • typography • Unless • utterance • V. • Vaslav Nijinsky • Venusberg (mythology) • Victor Plarr • Voice-Over • vorticism • Wagnerism • Wallace Stevens • Walter Benjamin • Walter Conrad Arensberg • Walter Lippmann • Walter Pater • W. B. Yeats • Western esotericism • W. H. Auden • William Empson • Wound • Writing • Wyndham Lewis
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22578-8 / 0691225788
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22578-4 / 9780691225784