{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Other Side of Despair: The Search for Meaning in T.S Eliot\u2019s \u201cThe Waste Land\u201d","description":"Ralston College presents a talk by Christopher Snook, Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University, on T.S. Eliot\u2019s modernist masterpiece The Waste Land. The lecture explores the personal, historical, and literary contexts of Eliot\u2019s poem. Through an engagement with the Western tradition that is simultaneously rich and fragmented, The Waste Land confronts cultural and personal crises that have atrophied both memory and desire. Snook finds in Eliot\u2019s work a mournful modernism that serves as a serious and searching rejoinder to the more frivolous and enervated responses present in some modernist schools, most notably Dadaism. This lecture was delivered on April 15th, 2024 at Ralston College\u2019s Savannah campus, during the final term of the second year of the MA in the Humanities Program. Applications are now open for next year\u2019s MA program. Full scholarships are available. https:\/\/www.ralston.ac\/apply Mentioned in this episdoe:  T. S. Eliot \u201cThe Waste Land\u201dThe DialKathleen RaineVirgil, AeneidEliot, \u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201dEliot, \u201cTradition and Individual Talent\u201dEliot, The Family Reunion Henri BergsonBertrand Russell Virginia Woolf, Jacob\u2019s RoomLeonard WoolfEzra PoundJames Joyce, Ulysses Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Oswald Spengler, Decline and Fall of the West Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past Claude McCay, Harlem Shadows August Strindberg Neo-impressionism Cubism Dadaism Surrealism Futurism Taxi Driver (film) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, War, the World\u2019s Only Hygiene Hugo Ball, Dada Manifesto \u201cThat Shakespearian Rag\u201d William Shakespeare, Hamlet World War I Henry James F. H. Varley Punic Wars Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy The Tempest Modernism Collage Pablo Picasso Georges BraqueMarcel Duchamp, Nude Descending Staircase; Fountain Montage F. H. BradleyHegel, Phenomenology of Spirit Plato The Matter of Britain Jessie Weston James Frazer Richard Wagner, Parsifal Augustine, Confessions Charles Dickens, Hard Times Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Eliot, \u201cThe Hollow Men\u201d Tower of Babel Petronius, The Satyricon Michelangelo, frescoes of Sistine Chapel Virgil, Eclogues Ovid, Metamorphoses Franz Kafka Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Thomas Middleton, Women Beware Women; A Game at Chess Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra Charles Baudelaire, \u201cAu Lecteur\u201d Fredrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals ","author_name":"The Ralston College Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.ralston.ac\/conversations","html":"