托·斯·艾略特

出版时间：2008-9-1  出版社：上海外语教育出版社  作者：库珀（Cooper, J.）  页数：129  字数：174000  
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前言

　　为了帮助广大读者特别是英语专业学生学习英国文学，上海外语教育出版社从国外引进了这套“剑桥文学名家研习系列”丛书。正如封底文字所说，本系列丛书旨在向学生介绍英美经典作家，而普通读者如果想进一步了解自己所喜爱的作家作品，也会发现这套丛书富有吸引力。　　英国文学是英国人民在漫长的历史发展进程中创造的英国文化与文明的精华，是世界文学宝库中一颗璀璨的明珠。文学是语言的艺术，英国文学是英语语言艺术的结晶。英语表意功能强，文体风格变化多，或高雅，或通俗，或含蓄，或明快，或婉约，或粗犷，其丰富的表现力和独特的魅力在英国作家作品里得到了最为淋漓尽致的发挥。要真正掌握英语，必须阅读和了解优秀的英国文学作品，英国文学因此成为高校英语专业课程设置不可或缺的组成部分。

内容概要

托·斯·艾略特（1888—1965）是二十世纪英美文学史上最重要的诗人之一，同时也是一个有极大影响的文学批评家，是英美新批评派的开山鼻祖。他对于传统的新阐释具有划时代的意义；他提出的“非个性化”理论和寻找“客观对应物”的创作手法对现代西方文学批评和诗歌创作产生了巨大的影响。他的诗和一套文论引发了人们轰轰烈烈的讨论与研究，至今余波未息。 本书是“剑桥文学名家研习系列”之一，书中对托·斯·艾略特的生平作了简要的阐述。

书籍目录

PrefaceAbbreviationsChapter 1  Life  Early life, 1888-1914  A bohemian life, 1915-1922  Man of letters, 1923-1945  The sage, 1945-1965Chapter 2  Contexts  Early influences  France  England  Religion  Philosophy  Culture and society  Romanticism and classicism  A sense of the pastChapter 3  Works  Early poems  "Portrait of a Lady"  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"  "The Hollow Men"  "Gerontion"  Poems 1920  The Waste Land  The Ariel poems and Ash-Wednesday  Plays  Cultural criticism  Four Quartets  ReevaluationChapter 4  Critical reception  Notes  The works of T. S. Eliot  Further readingIndex

章节摘录

　　Religion　　After the publication of The Waste Land in 1922, Eliots spiritual and religiouslife began to change, gradually at first, but a new commitment to Christianitywas clear. Among his contemporaries there were doubts at first that it wasgenuine. The confused response to Ash-Wednesday in 1930 was typical. Therewere even suggestions, from his friend Lewis for example, that it had about itthe disagreeable scent of skillful social climbing. That it was the Church ofEngland to which he swore spiritual allegiance deepened the suspicions. Afterall, the Established Church in England was at the time so intricately entwinedwith social and political power in the country that it seemed as if Eliot, themodernist poet and bohemian artist, had simply tendered his soul to theEstablishment and to mainstream society rather than to God. But appearancescan be deceiving and they were in this case. Eliots interest in religious beliefand questions of faith were not of recent birth, nor were they motivated bymercenary self-interest. Undoubtedly, he was interested in the fate of his soul,but he was as equally concerned about the fate of a society moving inexorablytoward thoroughgoing secularism and the materialism which accompanies it.His studies in anthropology at Harvard had already introduced him to thesociocultural importance of religion as a primordial binding force in society.A common set of transcendental beliefs made it possible for a people toexperience the plenitude of a vital communal life and the psychological andemotional reassurances that come with authentic belonging.

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　　《托·斯·艾略特》旨在为学生引荐英美文学名家，内容亲和，语言生动，对有意提高西方文学素养的读者很有吸引力。　　·学生、教师、专题主讲者均适用　　·简明扼要、信息丰富　　·配有进一步研究的书目