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Original and probing new scholarship on T. S. Eliot's engagement with the visual and performance artsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9781474405287','ISBN:9781474405294','ISBN:9781474405300']);From his early "Curtain Raiser" to the late Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot took an interest in all the arts, drawing on them for poetic inspiration and for analysis in his prose. T. S. Eliot and the Arts provides extensive, high quality research about his many-sided engagement with painting, sculpture, museum artefacts, architecture, music, drama, music hall, opera and dance, as well as the emerging media of recorded sound, film and radio. Building on the newly published editions of Eliot's prose and poetry, this contemporary research collection opens avenues for understanding Eliot both in his own right as a poet and critic and as a foremost exemplar of interarts modernism.Key FeaturesGathers cutting-edge scholarship on a wide range of arts, emphasising the interconnection of the arts in Eliot's work and in modernism generallyAppears at a time when Eliot has been, and will continue to be, much in the news and closely studied because of the publication of his letters, collected poems and proseHailing from the UK, US, Continental Europe and India, the contributors to this volume have recently published significant books on modernism and the arts, shaping the fields that they here develop with respect to Eliot Interart studies is a new and rapidly growing field, particularly in music and dance"...
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