Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from December 1997

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from December 1997

The editors are grateful for the assistance of Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Betty Sue Flowers, and Ronald Schuhardt on this issue.
December 22, 1997... TSLL's editorial statement asks its contributors for "critically contextualized" essays, but rarely have we had one that so directly addresses a hot-button topic as Ranen Omer's in this issue. The issue is that of T. S. Eliot and anti-Semitism,...

"It is I who have been defending a religion called Judaism": the T.S. Eliot and Horace M. Kallen correspondence.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1997... In his recent controversial study, T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form (1995), Anthony Julius argues that Eliot did not do enough to separate himself from the earlier anti-Jewish references in his poetry, in spite of his later...

Fantastic views: T.S. Eliot and the occultation of knowledge and experience.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1997... T. S. Eliot's early interest in the occult is widely known. Readers have long been familiar with his most celebrated occultist--Madame Sosostris, the "famous clairvoyante" of The Waste Land who is mockingly described as "the wisest woman in...

T.S. Eliot and the rape of God.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1997... Calvin Bedient argues that representations of rape in such modernist texts as "Leda and the Swan," A Passage to India, and The Waste Land articulate a twentieth-century sense of "God as force, not as idea." The appropriate religious "mode" is...

Poetic justice: Elizabeth Hardwick's 'Sleepless Nights'.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1997... Throughout the wretched summer of 1973, while the Watergate scandal raged, Elizabeth Hardwick was in the limelight as the publicly abandoned wife of the man often touted as America's foremost poet. "I hate the glossary, the concordance of truth...