T.S. Eliot and our Turning World

JEWEL SPEARS BROOKER, Professor of Literature at Eckerd College in Florida has written or edited five books on modern literature, including Mastery and Escape: T.S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism (1994) and Reading The Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation (1990). She has served two terms as President of the T.S. Eliot Society.

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.S.Brooker ELIOT AND INNOCENCE/EXPERIENCE Eliot and the Reality of Childhood; M.Thormählen 'The Journey of the Magi' in the Context of Eliot's Religious Development; R.Germer ELIOT AND PHILOSOPHY Eliot and Heraclitus; W.Blissett Eliot's Reports on Kant: Reading the First and Second Critiques; J.S.Brooker & W.Charron Points of View, Objects, and Half-Objects: Eliot's Poetry at Merton College; S.Medcalf Buddhist Epistemology in T.S. Eliot's Theory of Poetry; T.Murata ELIOT AND THE OTHER ARTS Connections between Eliot and Major Composers: Stravinsky and Britten; P.Dickinson Shakespeare/Dante and Water/Music in The Waste Land; R.Malamud Eliot's Shakespeare and Eliot's Dante; D.Gervais ELIOT AND POPULAR CULTURE The Problem of Dullness: Eliot and the 'Lively Arts' in the 1920s; D.Chinitz Eliot on the Air: 'Culture' and the Challenges of Mass Communication; M.Coyle ELIOT AND ANTI-SEMITISM Eliot in the Dock; J.S.Brooker T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and the Weight of Apologia; D.M.Thompson ELIOT AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Rethinking 'Great Tom': T.S. Eliot and the Collaborative Impulse; R.Badenhausen T.S. Eliot and the Feminist Revision of the Modern(ist) Canon; T.Gibert APPENDIX T.S.Eliot's Radio Broadcasts, 1929-1963: A Chronological Checklist Works Consulted Index