Reviews for Végjáték

The average rating for Végjáték based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-01-02 00:00:00 Teresa Edwards Not as good as I'd have liked. Crawford is clearly a talented biographer--or, to say the least, has a keen eye for biographical detail. But Crawford seems to have forgotten that he is writing a monograph and not a biography: here, biographical accounts obscure much of the central arguments, and close reading consists of linking biographical facts to Eliot's poems. For instance, Crawford talks about Eliot's close connection to the sea during his childhood and therefore is 'no wonder' that Eliot wrote 'Marina'. He is, of course, right, but how do the two relate? how does this contribute to our understanding of the binary opposition that the title of the monograph refers to in Eliot's poetry? We are left with no answers. And honestly? for a biography I could simply have turned to Lyndall Gordon, who actually engages with biographical criticism and not biographical association. Much potential wasted.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-05-02 00:00:00 Kelly Kaiser 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.