Raising The Rock: The Importance of T. S. Eliot’s Pageant-Play
T. S. Eliot’s The Rock was written as part of a fundraising campaign to assist the Forty-Five Churches Fund to build new churches in Fondons suburbs. The pageant play has to-date received little critical attention partly due to the fact that it was a commissioned piece, and partly due to its undenia...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2013
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2013, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 261-282 |
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| Summary: | T. S. Eliot’s The Rock was written as part of a fundraising campaign to assist the Forty-Five Churches Fund to build new churches in Fondons suburbs. The pageant play has to-date received little critical attention partly due to the fact that it was a commissioned piece, and partly due to its undeniable flaws. A thoroughgoing reassessment of the important place the play holds in Eliots oeuvre is therefore long overdue. I aim to show that an attentive re-reading of The Rock in its church setting is indispensable for gaining a full understanding of the development of Eliots post-conversion ideas about community, tradition, and the ritual function of art. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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