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By Gabrielle McIntire

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf have been nearly targeted contemporaries, readers and critics of every others' paintings, and buddies for over two decades. Their writings, even though, are infrequently paired. Modernism, reminiscence, and hope proposes that a few impressive correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf's poetic, fictional, severe, and autobiographical texts, rather of their habitual flip to the language of hope, sensuality, and the physique to render memory's strategies. The ebook contains wide archival examine on a few normally unknown bawdy poetry by way of T. S. Eliot whereas supplying readings of significant paintings by way of either writers, together with The Waste Land, 'The Love music of J. Alfred Prufrock', Orlando and To the Lighthouse. McIntire juxtaposes Eliot and Woolf with numerous significant modernist thinkers of reminiscence, together with Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Walter Benjamin, to provide compelling reconsiderations of the relation among textuality, remembrance and the physique in modernist literature.

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