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"In this slim volume focusing on T. S. Eliot's poems in Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets, Atkins proposes first to challenge the 'deep' reading of Eliot that finds meaning buried beneath symbols, and second, to refute the claim that Eliot is an idealist seeking to transcend the material world. In place of the so-called deep reading, Atkins offers both a 'lateral' reading (i.e., reading a particular poem alongside other work by that author) and a 'literal' reading, which purports to take 'the plain meaning of the words' as Eliot's intended meaning. Although he concedes at points that this plain meaning can be perplexing or enigmatic, he insists that when read literally, both Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets pivot on the figure of the Incarnation - the central mystery of Christianity . . . this is a provocative argument, and the point Atkins makes regarding Eliot's idealism is persuasive. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice
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Book Title: T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth
Authors: G. Douglas Atkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301321
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: G. Douglas Atkins 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30131-4Published: 30 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30132-1Published: 30 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 71
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary History, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory