The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts

Edited by Frances Dickey and John Morgenstern

Published by Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh Companions to Literature

Brings together in one place cutting-edge scholarship on a wide range of arts, emphasising the interconnection of the arts in Eliot's work and in modernism generally.
Appears at a time when Eliot has been, and will continue to be, much in the news and closely studied because of the publication of his letters, collected poems and prose.
Hailing from the UK, US, Continental Europe and India, the contributors to this volume have recently published significant books on modernism and the arts, shaping the fields that they here develop with respect to Eliot (Coyle, Dickey, Faulk, Graham, Hargrove, Jones, Tracy, and Trotter).
Interart studies is a new and rapidly growing field, particularly in music and dance.

The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts

Edited by Frances Dickey and John Morgenstern

Published by Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh Companions to Literature

Description

From his early "Curtain Raiser" to the late Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot took an interest in all the arts, drawing on them for poetic inspiration and for analysis in his prose. T. S. Eliot and the Arts provides extensive, high quality research about his many-sided engagement with painting, sculpture, museum artefacts, architecture, music, drama, music hall, opera and dance, as well as the emerging media of recorded sound, film and radio. Building on the newly published editions of Eliot's prose and poetry, this contemporary research collection opens avenues for understanding Eliot both in his own right as a poet and critic and as a foremost exemplar of interarts modernism.

The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts

Edited by Frances Dickey and John Morgenstern

Published by Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh Companions to Literature

Preface, Ronald Schuchard;
Part I. The Visual Arts;
1. Eliot in the Asian Wing; 1.1. 1.2. Eliot's Tour of Asian and African Art in the Museums of Paris and London, Nancy Hargrove;
1.3. 2. The Modern Bacchanal: Eliot and Matisse, John Morgenstern;
3. Eliot and Italian Painting, Anne Stillman;
4. Eliot, Architecture, and Historic Preservation, Joshua Mabie; Part II. The Performance Arts;
5. The Musical World of Eliot's Inventions, Frances Dickey; 6. Wagner in The Waste Land;
6.1 "Try, if possible, to hear something": Mediating Wagners, Adrian Paterson;
6.2 "So all the women are one woman": Eliot's Kundry, Katherine Hobbs;
7. Eliot, Stravinsky, and the Rite, T. Austin Graham;
8. Beauty Is in the Ear of the Beholder: Eliot, Armstrong, and Ellison, Steven Tracy;
9. The Music of Four Quartets;
9.1 Into our First World: Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Music of the Will in Four Quartets, Aakanksha Virkar-Yates;
9.2 Eliot and Absolute Music, Michelle Witen;
10. Eliot and the Music-Hall Comedian, Barry J. Faulk;
11. Evenings at the Phoenix Society: Eliot and the Independent London Theatre, Anthony Cuda;
12. Eliot and Dance, Susan Jones; Part III. The Media;
13. Eliot and the Idea of "Media", David Trotter;
14. Eliot and Phonography, Malobika Sarkar;
15. Eliot's Radio Times; or, Listen with Possum, Edward Allen.