"I had not thought death had undone so many": Katabasis in Eliot's "The Waste Land"
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2018-05
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The Ohio State University
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This paper details a reading of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" that focuses on the presence (or lack thereof) of a narrator in the poem, as well as the poem's allusions to Dante and the greater literary tradition of the katabasis, or descent to the Underworld.
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T.S. Eliot, katabasis, narrative theory, modernist poetry, underworld