Elisabeth Daumer and Shyamal Bagchee

Elisabeth Daumer and Shyamal Bagchee, eds. International Reception of Eliot. New York: Continuum, 2007. Pp. 320. $150.00. title of this collection of essays, International Reception of may lead readers to expect comprehensive histories of Eliot's reception by writers and/or literary critics in various countries and cultures. countries and cultures addressed are indeed various--Caribbean and Bengali cultures, France, Germany, Romania, Iceland, Spain, China, Japan, Canada, Argentina, Poland, Australia--but equally various are the genres of reception history offered. Not all countries and cultures could be represented in a single book, and so one might resist complaining about notable omissions were it not for the fact that Germany, and Bengali culture get two essays each while there is nothing on South Korea and its Eliot Society, as well as nothing on the place of Eliot in African postcolonial reaction against traditional English studies. Additionally, some essays offer no more history of Eliot's reception than can be found in the essay writer's autobiography. Certain of the essays review the arc of Eliot's reception within a country or culture, first by indicating when he was initially noticed and by whom; what the reactions to him were by writers, literary critics, and translators, and how these reactions reflected and refracted issues of import in local and national literary domains; and then by following the subsequent developments in this reception all the way into the twenty-first century. Of this sort are Shunichi Takayanagi's In the Juvescence of the Year'--T.S. Eliot's Impact and Reverberations in Japan 1930-2005, Lihui Liu's China's Reception of Eliot, Astradur Eysteinsson's and Eysteinn Thorvaldsson's T.S. Eliot in Iceland: A Historical Portrait, Leonore Gerstein's TS. Eliot and Modernism in Mid-Twentieth-Century Israel, Santiago Rodriguez Guerrero-Strachan's Multiple Voices, Single Identity: Eliot's Criticism and Spanish Poetry, Stefano Maria Casella's By the Arena ... II Decaduto': Eliot &/in Italy, and also, although not quite as historically comprehensive as the other essays I have mentioned, Shirshendu Chakrabarti's The Shadow of Eliot Across Bengali Poetry of the 1930s. These are the best of the book's reception histories. Eighteen essays like these seven would have made International Reception of Eliot not only a book worthy of its title but also an enduring standard resource for Eliot scholars. This is not to say that other essays are not valuable in their own right. Matthew Hart's study of the adversarial relationship between Eliot and Caribbean poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Brian Trahearne's study of Eliot's determining influence on Canadian poet A.J.M. Smith, Juan E. De Castro's study of the influence of Eliot's provoking Eurocentrism on Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, J.H. Copley's study of Eliot's conflicted friendship with German scholar E.R. Curtius, Magda Heydal's study of Eliot's modernizing influence on Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz, and William Marx's study of the differences between Eliot and the editors of La Nouvelle Revue Fran faise are all good accounts of the way particular people received Eliot's work in particularly Caribbean, Canadian, Argentinian, German, Polish, and French ways, respectively. …

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