{"title":"Palimpsests and Doubles: Echoes of The Rubáiyát in T. S. Eliot's Poetry after Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio","authors":"Russell Brickey","doi":"10.1353/mml.2020.0021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This paper expands on the observations of Vinnie-Marie D’Ambrosio regarding the relationship between the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Victorian author Edward FitzGerald transmogrification of the poetry of the medieval Persian polymath Omar Khayyam. Theories of literary authenticity, the imaginative-double (the author speaking through the voice of a spurious historical figure), and The Rubaiyat and Eliot's The Four Quartets. Importantly, Sarah Dillon's concept of “palimpsestuous\" (the inscription of parent texts beneath the child texts) allows readers to glimpse the relationship between Khayyam, FitzGerald, and Eliot despite their vast chronological and geographical separation.","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"366 1","pages":"105 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mml.2020.0021","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: This paper expands on the observations of Vinnie-Marie D’Ambrosio regarding the relationship between the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Victorian author Edward FitzGerald transmogrification of the poetry of the medieval Persian polymath Omar Khayyam. Theories of literary authenticity, the imaginative-double (the author speaking through the voice of a spurious historical figure), and The Rubaiyat and Eliot's The Four Quartets. Importantly, Sarah Dillon's concept of “palimpsestuous" (the inscription of parent texts beneath the child texts) allows readers to glimpse the relationship between Khayyam, FitzGerald, and Eliot despite their vast chronological and geographical separation.
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The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association publishes articles on literature, literary theory, pedagogy, and the state of the profession written by M/MLA members. One issue each year is devoted to the informal theme of the recent convention and is guest-edited by the year"s M/MLA president. This issue presents a cluster of essays on a topic of broad interest to scholars of modern literatures and languages. The other issue invites the contributions of members on topics of their choosing and demonstrates the wide range of interests represented in the association. Each issue also includes book reviews written by members on recent scholarship.