EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Waste Land, Intertextuality, Cauterization
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Literary history: fisher king, eastern philosophy, western literature, buddhism, the bible, religion. Imagery: symbolism, theme, essay, tradition, myth, syncretism, asceticism, shantih, prophet. Tradition and the individual talent: most important literary critical essay of the 20th century, both modernist and anti- modernist, literary modernism, eliot sees himself as a modern , vs. modernism as get rid of the past modern science. Whereas if we approach a poet immortality most vigorously (114: use of paradox (=logical contradiction) to explain deeper truths. Ex: i"m cold and hot at the same time (paradox) Tradition cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour : being an author requires work, effort, and studying past authors not. No poet, no artist has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone (115) o.
