Signifying nothing : plenitude and vacancy in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and The Waste Land : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University

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dc.contributor.authorChristie, Edward J
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-28T21:36:46Z
dc.date.available2018-08-28T21:36:46Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on nothingness (vacancy) in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and The Waste Land. Nothingness is both a theme and a technique of Eliot's poetry. As a theme nothingness may be elucidated by both existential and mystical models since both theories have nothingness as a central theoretical concept. As a technique nothingness invites the reader's response by suggesting the possibility of final meaning, simultaneously demanding and undermining interpretation. Existing in a mutually exclusive and mutually defining relationship with nothingness is the "plenitude" of signification. An underlying aim of Eliot's poems becomes to capture in language the paradoxical combination of vacancy and plenitude which will allow a subject to transcend the relativity of signification and, in the case of Four Quartets, know God and Self directly, or in the case of The Waste Land, to finalise meaning.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/13631
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectEliot, T. S. 1888-1965en_US
dc.subjectCriticism interpretationen_US
dc.titleSignifying nothing : plenitude and vacancy in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and The Waste Land : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey Universityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorChristie, Edward J
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
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