Where the Words Are Valid: T.S. Eliot's Communities of Drama
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Where the Words Are Valid: T.S. Eliot's Communities of Drama
By (Author) Professor Randy Malamud
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th December 1994
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
822.912
Physical Properties
Hardback
224
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
539g
Description
To understand Eliot's weighty contribution to the pantheon of modernism, one must take account of his dramatic career. Where the Words Are Valid brings to modernist scholars' serious attention a large body of work that has often been glibly patronized and relegated to near-obscurity. Eliot's plays embody more significant connections than disruptions with the rest of his work, and are integrally related to the other elements of his oeuvre. Further, they contain a richly suggestive autobiographical vein that illuminates the persona and psyche of Eliot the playwright and, as well, throwbacks to Eliot as a younger poet and critic.
Author Bio
RANDY MALAMUD is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University, where he teaches Modern Literature. He is the author of The Language of Modernism (1989) and T.S. Eliot's Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1992), as well as articles on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and other modern figures. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary study of modernism in literature and the other arts, as well as a cultural studies project about literary images of zoos.
