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After Solipsism: Person in the Modern Literary Imagination | Prof. Thomas Pfau

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Exploring Themes in Modern Literature through Eliot's The Wasteland

This chapter delves into the experimental modernism of literary giants like Jared Manley Hopkins and T.S. Eliot, discussing themes of interpersonal failure and sin through a despondent moment in Eliot's The Wasteland. The analysis further explores the impact of modern chronometric time on individual experiences, as depicted through a typist's disillusionment with romantic love.

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