Reading "The Waste Land": Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation - Paperback

by Jewel Spears Brooker (Author), Joseph Bentley (Author)

This study of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land guides the reader through the poem line by line, taking into account a number of previous interpretations. Aims to offer a part-by-part analysis of the poem with periodic summations and a meditation on the limits of interpretation and the problematic nature of reading in the late 20th century.

Author Biography

Professor of literature at Eckerd College, JEWEL SPEARS BROOKER is editor of The Placing of T. S. Elliot (1991) and the MLA Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1988). The late JOSEPH BENTLEY was professor of English and director of graduate studies in English at the University of South Florida.