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  • T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot's debt to the seventeenth-century churchman Lancelot Andrewes and his theories of reading and writing texts. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy which includes T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • T.S. Eliot and the Fulfillment of Christian Poetics

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The culmination of a trilogy that began with T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word, and continued with T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian, this gracefully executed new book brings to a triumphant conclusion the unique effort to pinpoint and identify the Christian characteristics of Eliot's poetic art. The book offers a close but companionable reading of each of the complex poems that make up ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Swift’s Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Reading T.S. Eliot

    Four Quartets and the Journey towards Understanding

    by G. Atkins ...
    This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday. ... Read more

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  • Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home

    Quests of Transcendence and the Sin of Separation

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings. ... Read more

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  • Alexander Pope’s Catholic Vision

    “Slave to No Sect”

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England, this highly readable book focuses on Pope's religious thinking and major poems. G. Douglas Atkins extends the argument that the Roman Catholic poet was no Deist, 'closet' or otherwise. ... Read more

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  • T.S. Eliot’s Christmas Poems

    An Essay in Writing-as-Reading and Other “Impossible Unions”

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation. ... Read more

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  • T.S. Eliot and the Failure to Connect

    Satire on Modern Misunderstandings

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and inter-textual, this book is a bold analysis of satire of modern forms of misunderstanding. ... Read more

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  • E. B. White

    The Essayist as First-Class Writer

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and the writing life, offering detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White's distinctiveness as an essayist. ... Read more

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  • T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing, literature and commentary. ... Read more

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  • German Literature Through Nazi Eyes (RLE Responding to Fascism)

    by G Atkins ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism
    The influence of Nazism on German culture was a key concern for many Anglo-American writers, who struggled to reconcile the many contributions of Germany to European civilization, with the barbarity of the new regime.In German Literature Through Nazi Eyes, H.G. Atkins gives an account of how the Nazis undertook a re-evaluation of German literature, making it sub-ordinate to their own interests. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD