Mythical Method in T. S. Eliot´s "The Waste Land"

• Thesis title in Czech: Mytická metoda v T. S. Eliotově "The Waste Land"
• Thesis title in English: Mythical Method in T. S. Eliot´s "The Waste Land"
• Key words: "Pustá země", T. S. Eliot, mýtus
• English key words: "The Waste Land", T. S. Eliot, myth
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2013/2014
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Supervisor: doc. Justin Quinn, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 04.06.2014
• Date of assignment: 04.06.2014
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 25.06.2014
• Date and time of defence: 20.06.2016 00:00
• Date of electronic submission: 21.05.2016
• Date of proceeded defence: 20.06.2016
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D.

Guidelines

The thesis surveys the use of myth and ritual in T. S. Eliot´s poem “The Waste Land” (1922), and the later criticism concerned with the employment of mythological archetypes in this work. The focus is on the interpretation of central motifs of the poem (ritual sacrifice, death, rebirth, fertility of the land) through the approach of archetypal criticism.

References

Frazer, James George, Sir. The Golden Bough. New York: Macmillan, 1922.

Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.

Schwarz, Robert L. Broken Images: A Study of The Waste Land. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1988.

Robbins, Rossell Hope. The T.S. Eliot Myth. New York: Henry Schuman, 1951.

Weston, Jessie L. From Ritual to Romance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.