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T. S. Eliot and the Essay
G.Douglas Atkins
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Description for T. S. Eliot and the Essay
Hardcover. Offers a consideration of T S Eliot's essay as a form of embodied thinking. Exploring the similarities between Eliot's prose and poetry with the art of essay writing, this title discovers similar patterns of Incarnational thinking that emerge in each. Series: Studies in Christianity and Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
G. Douglas Atkins here offers an original consideration of T. S. Eliot's essay as a form of embodied thinking. A combination of literature and philosophy, the genre of the essay holds within itself a great tension--that between truth and creative prose. And, as Atkins explains, these conflicting forces of truth and creativity exist not only within the literary format itself but also within the writers and their relationships with the genre, making essay writing a wonderfully enriching ""impure art.""
Exploring the similarities between Eliot's prose and poetry with the art of essay writing, Atkins discovers remarkably similar patterns of ... Read more
G. Douglas Atkins here offers an original consideration of T. S. Eliot's essay as a form of embodied thinking. A combination of literature and philosophy, the genre of the essay holds within itself a great tension--that between truth and creative prose. And, as Atkins explains, these conflicting forces of truth and creativity exist not only within the literary format itself but also within the writers and their relationships with the genre, making essay writing a wonderfully enriching ""impure art.""
Exploring the similarities between Eliot's prose and poetry with the art of essay writing, Atkins discovers remarkably similar patterns of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Christianity and Literature
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781602582552
SKU
V9781602582552
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About G.Douglas Atkins
G. Douglas Atkins is Professor of English at the University of Kansas. His previous books include Reading Essays: An Invitation and Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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