Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and des

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10.1057/9781137482846 - Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up, Allyson Booth

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Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

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Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

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Copyright © Allyson Booth, 2015. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–48838–1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Booth, Allyson.    Reading The Waste Land from the bottom up / by Allyson Booth.     pages cm    Includes bibliographical references and index.    ISBN 978–1–137–48838–1 (hardback : alk. paper)    1. Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888–1965. Waste land. I. Title. PS3509.L43W3633 2015 8219.912—dc23

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For Mom, who believed in this book, and Dad, who will read it for both of them.

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Acknowledgments

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Permissions

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A Note on the Text Abbreviations

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How to Use This Book

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Introduction  A Dog Loping after a Frisbee

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“Swallowed