Honors Program
Midway Honors
Date of Award
5-2020
Thesis Professor(s)
David Michael Jones
Thesis Professor Department
Literature and Language
Thesis Reader(s)
Stephen G. Fritz
Abstract
Through careful analysis paired with poetry, war memoirs, and novels from the same period, one can break down T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land to recognize the impact of The Great War on the world's modern memory while pondering the possibility of memory as a tool to overcome trauma.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
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Recommended Citation
Bennett, Matthew, "The Roadmap: exploring T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land with World War One literature" (2020). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 545. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/545
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