...-Louis David's The Death of Marat ( 1793 ) alongside Vik Muniz's Marat/Tião as depicted in the documentary film Waste Land ( 2010 ) as evidence of the epistemological continuity between the laissez-faire and neoliberal political landscapes of the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries, respectively...

... and Eliot's "Sweeney" poans and "Gerontion." The chapters speak even more directly to each other in Sherry's analysis of The Waste Land, for here he shows the parallelism of the poets' projects in the impact of Pound's editorial recommendations. Pound emerges as the dominant collaborator in this tale...

... of The Waste Land within a discourse network structured by the phonograph. With Friedrich A. Kittler's work as the avowed inspiration, SuArez seeks to excavate the centrality of the new media to the experimental technique of writing Eliot deployed in the early 1920s. SuArez insists...

... in Djuna Barnes MICHAEL DAVIDSON What you get married for if you don’t want children? T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land God, I never asked better than to boil some good man’s potatoes and toss up a child for him every nine months...

... shows how Gordi- mer’s novel, in a narrative style reminiscent of T. S. Eliot’s uses of interwoven voices and overlapping perspectives in The Waste Land, offers a trenchant critique of the apartheid era’s pastoralism without any residue of Coetzee’s pastoral nostalgia. Barnard ends the chapter...

... ventriloquism in "The Waste Land," which was, after all, origi- nally titled, "He Do the Police in Different Voices." Or perhaps a nearer affinity still can be found between Wells's novel and the "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses, which engages in an analogous process of assuming and dismissing...

... asserts that critical cosmopolitanism relies on modernist defamiliarization does not mean she believes that all those texts we typically recognize as modernist are necessarily cosmopolitan in a robustly critical manner. T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land evinces a “posture of worldliness,” she maintains...

... of The Waste Land) finds in England after Empire a provincialization that offers "a gain in cultural vitality and coherence" rather than a "loss of global prestige" (131). The final chapter follows this insular drive down three interweaving mid-century paths. Keynesian economics, the first bloom...

... at these modes within individual works, offering, for example, an extended reading of The Waste Land as a poem that not only encompasses both enchanted and disenchanted violence but also traces the problems and contradictions in each mode and the often troubling relations between art and violence. Cole in fact...

... been caricatured as mad speech or interpreted as new language-based epistemologies. T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is mentioned once, but the fractured world of the poem is often traced biographically to his own mental breakdown and rest cure in Margate. Ezra Pound may have dodged a conviction...

... disciplinary turn in modernist anthropology from the Frazerian model of global hierarchies of culture to the Malinowskian model of empirical ethnography-a change arguably perceptible between The Waste Land and Ulysses, both published, along with Argonauts, in the crucial year of 1922. The ethnographic...

.... In this section, Ercolino relies heavily on Moretti's analysis of “world texts” (11) and the evolution of the modern epic form across several world literatures, including Faust , Moby-Dick , The Nibelung's Ring , Ulysses , The Cantos , The Waste Land , The Man without Qualities , and One Hundred Years...

.... From Eliot's underread "Whispers of Mortality" to his canon-making Waste Land, Lamos finds in his oeuvre, especially his fixation with citation, a desire for filiation with his own father and, more broadly, with his literary forefathers that is opposed by his con- comitant dread of female...

... of “resurrection”—distilled in “the eerie sense that memories of the pandemic were being both buried and relentlessly remembered” (40–41). Part 2, “Pandemic Modernism,” offers bravura readings of an iconic trauma trio: Mrs Dalloway (1925), The Waste Land (1922), and “The Second Coming” (1920). For each...

... of apparently unoccupied “waste” land in Australia posed a problem for this theory, in that it rendered capital investment largely profitless and encouraged “migratory habits” as workers eschewed wage labor to take farms of their own ( 47 ). Australian settler colonialism thus created a “paradox” for stadial...

... of stranger a middle-class flaneur might encounter in his travels across the city's new theaters of human interaction. Or even, most canonically, the vast archive of modernism itself, when the vagaries of urban life helped generate monuments like Ulysses and The Waste Land , of course, but also Invisible...

... price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012), pp. 360, cloth, $29.95, paper, $24.95. In the extraordinary documentary film Waste Land (2010), artist Vik Muniz chronicles the lives of the ‘‘pickers’’ at the Jardim Gramacho—the world’s largest garbage dump...

... biggest dump, the equivalent of no less than 244 American football fields. A team of catadores , garbage pickers who make a living by sorting out recyclable materials, assembles the images in Muniz's Waste Land series. Noting how the reproduction of The Death of Marat in this debris field exploits...

... . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991 . Drewry , Thomas . “Tony Last’s Two Children in A Handful of Dust.” Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies 25.3 ( 1991 ): 5 –8. Eagleton , Terry . “Evelyn Waugh and the Upper Class Novel.” Carens 106 –15. Eliot , T. S. The Waste Land . New York...

... reads Watt , Samuel Beckett's last English-language novel, as the novelist's critical engagement with a model of economic nationalism that achieves its ideal form in the Big House novel, a genre through which the landed Anglo-Irish formulated their claim to autonomy from the British Empire...