Reviews for Silence in the land of logos

The average rating for Silence in the land of logos based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-20 00:00:00 Garry Smith Academic anthologies tend to be a mixed bag. This one is more so than most: a few pieces are total gems, full of brilliant and useful insights. Several are banal. One begins with an entire section of wingeing and excuse-making: I never got to the substance of that one. One promises to address four literary authors, but mentions one only in passing. As a purchase, this anthology is not a good value. It is, however, well worth reading the articles that actually manage to address the topic: using Victor Turner's work in the liminal space of the literary and the cultural. The introduction and second and third essays are marvelous, the closing biographical sketch fascinating (Turner LARPed his own funeral, arranging for his students and fellow faculty to perform a full African funerary ritual, in costume and native language, after his passing). Otherwise, skip the tedious middle.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-05-06 00:00:00 Andrew Chen Wei Wen Bringing in anthropological concerns and methods, Crawford, while focusing on the poetry up to The Waste Land, demonstrates the continuity between Victorian literature and Eliot's work, as well as Eliot's intellectual training in the works of Durkheim and Levy-Bruhl and the centrality of anthropology to his own creative work.