6 Eliot: cultural effects on barren and desolate land. Cultural ideologies in the poem, The Waste Land
Vasso Tsirevelou
Corespondence:
Dr. Comparative Literature
e-mail: tsir.up@hotmail.com
Abstract
This article presents a cultural reading of extracts from Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’ in Greek from a hermeneutic aspect. The aim of this paper is to highlight a historical dimension of the translations (1933-1936) and to give an interpretation of the social context, the cultural references that lurk in the translations in Greece with an emphasis on their interpretation. What dimensions of Eliot do they project through translations and on the basis of cultural metaphors? In the current article, we are making an effort to take a further step towards presenting a synopsis of Eliot’s cultural metaphors and (cultural) ideologies as they become originally and primarily transparent throughout his actual poetic work, always in composition with his relevant essay. Our aim is to detect which his main cultural references are, as they are depicted through the basically displayed Modernistic themes of the
poem (The Waste Land). Next, an attempt will be made to interpret them, so as to investigate how they are perceived and whether they are directed straight towards the same audience or that of a similar cultural background. Keywords: hermeneutic, cultural metaphors, historicity, social context, Modernism.
Citation:
Tsirevelou V. Eliot: cultural effects on barren and desolate land. Cultural ideologies in the poem, The Waste Land. Theology & Culture. 2020; 1(2): 83-94. Doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.25665.38245
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