Written at the height of the current Pandemic, this review presents a timely scholarly study by Elizabeth Outka on the Influenza Pandemic of 1919 (also called Spanish Flu) and its effect on the interwar period and its literary representation. The review focuses particularly on Outka's interesting chapter on T. S. Eliot, which highlights the shaping, if underexamined, effects of the Pandemic on Eliot's masterpiece, The Waste Land, as well as on his celebrated essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent."
Review of Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature, by Elizabeth Outka
Mitrano, Mena
2020-01-01
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Written at the height of the current Pandemic, this review presents a timely scholarly study by Elizabeth Outka on the Influenza Pandemic of 1919 (also called Spanish Flu) and its effect on the interwar period and its literary representation. The review focuses particularly on Outka's interesting chapter on T. S. Eliot, which highlights the shaping, if underexamined, effects of the Pandemic on Eliot's masterpiece, The Waste Land, as well as on his celebrated essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent."
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Descrizione: Recensione del volume Viral Modernism, di Elizabeth Outka, scritta in risposta all'attuale Pandemia.
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