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Article: Totalizing the City: Eliot, de Certeau, and the Evolution of "The Waste Land".(Michel de Certeau, T.S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
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- Studies in the Literary Imagination
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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In his 1974 essay, "Walking in the City," Michel de Certeau theorizes a vision of urban landscape that depends on descending from "above"--a perspective from which the view is rigid, panoptic, totalizing, and false--into "the city's grasp" (92), where one may interact with waste, difference, and disorder, and consequently "enunciate" a more authentic (though less legible) version of place. This model establishes a helpful background for an examination of the way in which
The Waste Land
evolved, for in parts of its early stages, Eliot's poem very much anticipates de Certeau's construction of the city that ...
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