From Physics to Metaphysics: Philosophy and Allegory in the Critical Writings of T. S. Eliot

From Physics to Metaphysics: Philosophy and Allegory in the Critical Writings of T. S. Eliot

Abans de dedicar-se per complet a la literatura, T.S. Eliot fou un estudiant seriós de filosofia. Aquest estudi pretén determinar la importància d'aquest fet en el seu desenvolupament com a crític literari. La intenció és argumentar que el canvi que Eliot va fer de la filosofia a la literatura, va ser instigat amb l'esperança de trobar en el camp literari un estil que havia vençut durant els seus estudis filosòfics.
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Acknoledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbrevations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I. Science and the Style of Philosophy
    • Marriage, Literature and Philosophy
    • Vers Libre and the Problem with Philosophy
    • Literary Criticism and Scientific Rigour
  • Chapter 2. Ghosts and the Cognitive Problem of Impersonality
    • The "Presentation" of Metaphysics
    • Contradictions and Unreal Objects
    • Imaginary Objects, Immediate Experience and the "Correlative"
    • Hamlet's Ghost
    • Impersonality and the Frontier of Metaphysics
    • The Parody of Science as Critical Style
  • Chapter 3. Eternal History and the Cultural Self
    • The Historical Sense and the Aesthetics of Impersonal Cognition
    • The Collective and the Individual in Critical History
    • Pragmatism and Faith
    • Metaphysical Politics
    • Souls and Personality
  • Chapter 4. Towards the Articulation of Culture. Personal Experience and Metaphysical Definitions
    • Blake and the Personality of Impersonality
    • The Metaphysical Poets and Culture
    • The Negative Style of the Dissociation: Dr. Johnson's "Life of Cowley"
    • Thee Clark Lectures and Metaphysical Definitions
  • Chapter 5. Philosophy and Mysticism
    • Mysticism and Self-consciousness
    • The Mystical Via Positiva and Rethorical Incarnation
    • Richards and the Theory of Belief
  • Chapter 6. Eliot's Allegorical Rhetoric
    • Allegory as a Rhetorical Strategy
    • Rhetoric and the Sound of Sense of the Word
    • Figures and Prophecy
    • The Failure of Discourse: Vita Nuova and "Paradiso"
  • Chapter 7. Historicism and Style as Prophecy
    • Prejudice and the Metaphysical Perspective
    • The Sincerity of Self-consciousness
    • The Historical Sense of the Present
    • The Historicism of Eliot's Rhetorical Development
  • Bibliography

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