The Waste Land | The First Lecture
Our aim at the end of these three sessions is to give us the tools actually to read this modernist poem.
How and why The Waste Land is (de)constructed.
How we link apparently fragmented lines through Eliot’s references, the hypertexts.
We might not finish the wasteland entirely, but you will however be ready to go forth, brave adventurer…
Expect a serious (and seriously playful) engagement with Eliot.
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The First Lecture:
The paratexts: Malory, Petronius, & Dante
Begin before the beginning.
We recommend you read The Waste Land, of course, but we’ve prepared a document for your reading pleasure, with important sections highlighted.
Necessary Reading:
The Waste Land (first part)
Recommended Reading:
Malory, Petronius, & Dante
Bob Shepherd’s research focuses on the intertextual relationships between multilingual literatures, particularly the poetry of T.S. Eliot. His current work explores Eliot’s poetic methods, with particular emphasis on The Waste Land, Prufrock and the fusion of dramatic monologue and lyric. Bob Shepherd currently teaches at UAM, Madrid.