Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Anglica Wratislaviensia
Angaben zur Quelle:
34 (1999) 27-40
Keywords:
Eliot, T. S.
;
Antisemitism in literature
Abstract:
Discusses the offensive antisemitic imagery in Eliot's poetry as representing his underlying political ideology. The images reveal the poet's personal and social anxieties. It is not the Jew in general (e.g. not the Orthodox or Sephardic Jew) but the rich, cosmopolitan, free-thinking Jew who is a threat to Eliot's mythic order which is based on nationalism, Christianity, and Empire, and which represent for him barriers to crisis and chaos. Eliot did not appear to be conscious of why or the extent to which he scapegoated Jews.
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