(Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
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Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. Hrsg. / Martin Kindermann; Rebekka Rohleder. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. S. 45-64 (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - (Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
AU - Keidel, Verena
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper investigates the interconnectedness of space and sacredness in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land by drawing on Augustine’s understanding of the city as spiritual entity as well as more recent sociological readings of sacred space being produced through religious practice. I argue that London’s cityscape in Eliot’s poem recalls the Augustinian idea of urban space as a spiritual state, while it also points to the social dimension of material sacred sites: The poem’s portrayal of ecclesiastical buildings demonstrates the social effects of the negation of communal (church) ritual, but it also stresses the benefits of a successful production of sacredness and numinous beauty by social practices in an otherwise spiritually depraved environment.
AB - This paper investigates the interconnectedness of space and sacredness in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land by drawing on Augustine’s understanding of the city as spiritual entity as well as more recent sociological readings of sacred space being produced through religious practice. I argue that London’s cityscape in Eliot’s poem recalls the Augustinian idea of urban space as a spiritual state, while it also points to the social dimension of material sacred sites: The poem’s portrayal of ecclesiastical buildings demonstrates the social effects of the negation of communal (church) ritual, but it also stresses the benefits of a successful production of sacredness and numinous beauty by social practices in an otherwise spiritually depraved environment.
KW - Cultural studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85145687686&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-55269-5_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-55269-5_3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85145687686
SN - 978-3-030-55268-8
T3 - Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
SP - 45
EP - 64
BT - Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
A2 - Kindermann, Martin
A2 - Rohleder, Rebekka
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham
ER -