T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth

1. Reading Literally, Reading Laterally
G. Douglas Atkins

2. Turning and Acceptance in Ash-Wednesday: Affirming Life’s Newness and Joy
G. Douglas Atkins

3. Falling in Love and Reading Spinoza: Some Forms of Approach to “Amalgamating Disparate Experience”
G. Douglas Atkins

4. The Gift Half Understood: Incarnation as “Impossible Union,” Way, and Intersection
G. Douglas Atkins

5. The Word, Words, and the World: Redeeming the Word, or Some Implications of Incarnation for Reading and Writing about Literature
G. Douglas Atkins

Keywords: Literature, Literary History, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory