Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land

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Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land

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Based closely in spirit upon the most recent development in prosodic studies, Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land attempts another round of “philosophical investigation”. The book demonstrates how The Waste Land could be read afresh in terms of the hidden verbal transformation that reveals the overlooked performative and collaborative nature of language. This verbal transformation makes The Waste Land flow naturally as truly “rhythmical creation of [meaningful] beauty” the way Poe defines poetry, especially through what Eliot calls “auditory imagination” or what Herder calls “intermediary sensation” that makes the poetry “the first language” of humanity or “the dictionary of the soul.” The verbal transformation also serendipitously makes sounds of despair the sounds of hope.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface: Challenge and Choice
Chapter One: The Performative Nature of Language
Chapter Two: The Revelation of the Performative Power and Verbal Functionalism of Language
Chapter Three: Futility and Hope: Retaining the Unretainable Life in Art as in Real World
Chapter Four: Turbulent Emotion that Still Moves as Sculpted in Perpetual Tranquility
Chapter Five: Sounds of Words and Sounds of Thunder and Hope
Bibliography
Index

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Published 13 Apr 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 346
ISBN 9781666907629
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 226 x 160 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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