EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Waste Land, Intertextuality, F. R. Leavis
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11 march 2014: research assignment, eliot"s notes to the waste land , anthropology and myth: frazer and weston, sexuality & prophecy: ovid, asceticism and eliot"s political leanings. The spirite of the music was modern and the spirit of the ballet is was primitive ceremony, the. Vegetation rite upon which the ballet if founded is a pageant of primitive culture. It was interesting to any one who had read the golden bough and similar works. In art there should be interpenetration and metamorphosis, even the golden bough can be read in two ways; as a collection of entertaining myths, or as a revelation of that vanished mind of which our ind is a continuation . Intertextuality: anthropology and myth: anthropology is the study of human cultures, eliot singles out frazer and weston as his major sources, from weston"s study of the medieval grail legend, title, plan, symbolism.
