T. S. Eliot and the Essay

Author:   Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies G Douglas Atkins (University of Kansas)
Publisher:   Baylor University Press
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9781299733541


Pages:   158
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
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G. Douglas Atkins here offers an original consideration of T. S. Eliot's essay as a form of embodied thinking. A combination of literature and philosophy, the genre of the essay holds within itself a great tension--that between truth and creative prose. And, as Atkins explains, these conflicting forces of truth and creativity exist not only within the literary format itself but also within the writers and their relationships with the genre, making essay writing a wonderfully enriching impure art. Exploring the similarities between Eliot's prose and poetry with the art of essay writing, Atkins discovers remarkably similar patterns of Incarnational thinking that emerge in each. In so doing, he establishes for the first time the essayistic nature of the great poem Four Quartets and provides an eloquent reflection on how the essay in all its impurity functions as Incarnational art, an embodiment of truth.

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Author:   Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies G Douglas Atkins (University of Kansas)
Publisher:   Baylor University Press
Imprint:   Baylor University Press
ISBN:  

9781299733541


ISBN 10:   1299733549
Pages:   158
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Undefined
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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