EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Waste Land, Intertextuality, F. R. Leavis
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Key words: poetry, secondary sources, primary sources, criticism, tradition, allusion, cosmopolitanism, classics, trope. Many allusions in twl are to dante. Eliot revered dante as a model poetic figure, one who combined. Eliot is showing his roots are pan-european and reach far into the poetry and religious thought literary past. Intertextuality: anthropology and myth: anthropology is the study of human cultures, eliot singles out frazer and weston as his major sources (headnote: p. 21, from weston"s study of the medieval grail legend, title, plan, symbolism. Anthropology and myth: frazer & weston: where can we find allusions to frazer"s priest-king and dying god or weston"s. Fisher king in the waste land: iii. Sexuality and prophecy: tiresias: sex, sexuality and fertility occur throughout the poem. What tiresias is the poem : explore different aspects of this figure, question eliot"s note (23, how well do m& f meet in him in the scene he sees (12-14)
