Capture Theory: Battling with Tropes in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

IF 0.1 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

Arizona Quarterly Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI:10.1353/arq.2019.0012

Owojecho Omoha

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Abstract

Abstract:This paper studies the relationship between the writer and the reader, in particular how the author engages a disengaged and world-weary public imagination in Europe after the First World War. To this end, I have formulated what I call capture theory, with which I will analyze T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922). I differentiate between capture and receptive theories, and argue, using cognitive psychology and theories of imagination, how the writer systematically captures the reader with literary tropes couched in allusions, metaphors, symbols, and attention-seeking cues.

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捕获理论：T.S.艾略特《荒原》中的战利品争夺

摘要：本文研究了作家和读者之间的关系，特别是作者如何在第一次世界大战后的欧洲进行脱离现实、厌世的公众想象。为此，我制定了我所说的捕捉理论，用它来分析T.S.艾略特的《荒原》（1922）。我区分了捕捉理论和接受理论，并利用认知心理学和想象理论，论证了作者如何用典故、隐喻、符号和注意力寻求线索中的文学比喻系统地捕捉读者。

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Arizona Quarterly LITERATURE, AMERICAN-

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期刊介绍： Arizona Quarterly publishes scholarly essays on American literature, culture, and theory. It is our mission to subject these categories to debate, argument, interpretation, and contestation via critical readings of primary texts. We accept essays that are grounded in textual, formal, cultural, and theoretical examination of texts and situated with respect to current academic conversations whilst extending the boundaries thereof.