EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assigned: T.S. Eliot. \u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d (955-61 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.<\/em> 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. On 956-57 of \u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d (Section I), how does T.S. Eliot describe the poetic tradition and the \u201cmind of Europe\u201d to which he says writers must connect themselves? Further, how can the past be altered by the present when a new work of art enters what he calls the \u201csimultaneous order\u201d of works that make up the western literary tradition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. On 957-58 of \u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d (Section I), how does T.S. Eliot answer the charge that his theory requires \u201ca ridiculous amount of erudition\u201d? \u201cThe Waste Land,\u201d which Eliot wrote three years after this 1919 essay, seems like a good example of the kind of poetry he is calling for. If you have studied this poem, how do you respond to it, and how do you think it reflects on Eliot\u2019s claims about poetic tradition in the present essay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. On 958-59 of \u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d (Section II), how does T.S. Eliot characterize the creative process? What does the poet\u2019s mind \u201cexpress\u201d? How does his scientific analogy of the poet\u2019s mind to \u201ca bit of finely filiated platinum\u201d help him explain the creative process? Do you find the analogy apt? Why or why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. On 959-61 of \u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d (Sections II-III), what fault does T.S. Eliot find with Wordsworth\u2019s formulation of poetic expression as \u201cemotion recollected in tranquility\u201d? We know that the essay as a whole rejects romantic expressive doctrine. Is that rejection wholesale, or is Eliot\u2019s position somewhat more nuanced with regard to the idea that a poem has something to express? Explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. General question that might be folded into a relevant presentation question on Eliot. Eliot mainly addresses the individual poet who must relate himself or herself to the cultural and poetic tradition of Europe. But what does he at least indirectly suggest about how the reader connects to the kind of literature he is promoting? What inferences can you make regarding this point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" T. S. ELIOT QUESTIONS FOR E492 MODERN CRITICAL THEORYCSU FULLERTON, FALL 2015 Assigned: T.S. Eliot. \u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d (955-61 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8.) \u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d 1. On 956-57 of \u201cTradition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[47],"class_list":["post-922","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/922\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n