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Eliot

Evolution and Situated Freedom in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss

Our lecture yesterday was wonderfully insightful… but my god was it complicated! So much to think about on so many levels! I think my head will explode as I write this blog post. The one thing I think I understood well enough to reflect on is the idea of evolution and how it is portrayed […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2014 | Tagged with Darwinism, Eliot, Evolution, GEliot, George Eliot, On the Readings, Situated Freedom, The Mill on the Floss

Podcast: The Waste Land and Foe

Podcast: The Waste Land and Foe

Discussion with Jon Beasley-Murray and Kevin McNeilly

Posted in audio, Kevin McNeilly, Monster in the Mirror, podcast | Tagged with C20th, Coetzee, Eliot, Jon Beasley-Murray, modernism, narrative, novel, poetry, postmodernism

The Waste Land

Could this be the most confusing work we have read in arts one to date? I would have to agree with that statement. From the beginning of the poem onward, I found myself scratching my head and heading back a few lines to see if I had missed anything. It seems as though the purpose […]Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb1-2012 | Tagged with Eliot

The Wasteland

The Wasteland is a text of mysteries. While there might be some that tear their hair out over these mysteries, analyzing with scrupulous eyes, I embrace the mystery. I try to read the text for what it is, pretty sounding … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb1-2012 | Tagged with Eliot

T S Eliot, The Waste Land

T S Eliot, The Waste Land

Video of lecture by Kevin McNeilly for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme

Posted in Kevin McNeilly, lecture, Monster in the Mirror, video | Tagged with C20th, Eliot, England, exhaustion, intertextuality, modernism, poetry, ruins

Eliot’s Poetry: Playing on Ambiguity

I give up. I’ve tried so hard to fight my internalized spite of poetry, but I can’t change how I feel. The Wasteland is not my cup o’ tea. I like some poetry; I’ve read Plath, Tennyson, Joyce and others with modest enjoyment. There are actually a couple in particular I can recite from heart […]Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb1-2012 | Tagged with Eliot

The Waste Land

Poetry is often confusing when at a first glance. T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is no different. However, during closer readings, and while thinking about it, this poem is sad and yet intriguing. One of the longest poems I’ve … Continue reading →Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb1-2012 | Tagged with Eliot

Unreal City: Is the Waste Land a place?

To what extent is the Waste Land spatial, historical, and real? London strikes me as an “Unreal City” in a couple of (possibly) useful ways for coming at the poem. The City of London is actually only slightly bigger than … Continue reading →

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The Waste Land: Thoughts

So going into today’s seminar, to be honest here.. I didn’t really have a good grasp at all on this poem. Not saying that my understanding of it is amazing or anything, but I mean, it definitely improved upon talking … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb1-2012 | Tagged with Eliot

The Wasteland

At first I thought I had already read this piece and it turns out that I had not. I particularly have a fond of satirical poems type things and other poems, this poem, The Wasteland, is definitely not genre I have ever read before. Wow, is this poem ever different and I thought I was […]Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb1-2012 | Tagged with Eliot

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