"Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays": Demystifying authority and constructions of female sexuality in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

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dc.contributor.authorKhambalia, Andrea Catherine
dc.contributor.supervisorCarson, Luke
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-21T17:27:33Z
dc.date.available2025-02-21T17:27:33Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of English
dc.description.abstractThis study attempts to identify the site of The Waste Land's authority. Examining T.S. Eliot's theoretical investments, namely his theory of impersonality articulated in "Tradition and the Individual Talent," results in an awareness of the authority he invests in tradition, which he conceives of as impersonal and objective. However, what appears to be impersonality in fact constitutes a consensual agreement among individuals of a specific social and ideological perspective. The paper then reveals the strategies the poem employs to engineer objectivity and to obscure its subjective perspective. The analysis specifically exposes the poem's use of metaphoric and metonymic devices to project its image of woman and female desire. Consequently, misogyny is inscribed in The Waste land through metonymy, and universalized through metaphor.
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21336
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Web
dc.title"Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays": Demystifying authority and constructions of female sexuality in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
dc.typeThesis

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