The Waste Land and Modernity

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The Waste Land and Modernity

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42 minutes

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Feb 26, 2009

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Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Steve Connor and Lawrence Rainey, discuss TS Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land and its ambivalence to the modern world of technology, democracy and capitalism that was being forged around it.

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Feb 26, 2009

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Death: Melvyn Bragg examines the development of Western rituals and attitudes to death. by In Our Time: Culture
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Feminism: Melvyn Bragg examines the development of the empowerment of women in the 20th century. by In Our Time: Culture
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Shakespeare and Literary Criticism: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare. by In Our Time: Culture
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Work in the 20th Century: Melvyn Bragg examines the changing ideas about the function of work in the 20th century. by In Our Time: Culture
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The City in the 20th Century: Melvyn Bragg looks at the innovative developments of the city in the 20th century. by In Our Time: Culture
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Tragedy: Melvyn Bragg examines whether the ancient genre of tragedy has a place in our own time. by In Our Time: Culture
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Memory and Culture: Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed. by In Our Time: Culture
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The American Century: Melvyn Bragg examines how legitimate it is to call the 20th century the American century. by In Our Time: Culture
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The Avant Garde's Decline and Fall in the 20th Century: Melvyn Bragg examines the history and legacy of 20th Century Avant Garde painting. by In Our Time: Culture
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Psychoanalysis and Literature: Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature. by In Our Time: Culture
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Modern Culture: Melvyn Bragg examines the definition and state of modern culture in the 20th century. by In Our Time: Culture
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Cultural Rights in the 20th Century: Melvyn Bragg examines what impact globalisation has had on human rights. by In Our Time: Culture
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Language and the Mind: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural. by In Our Time: Culture
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Architecture in the 20th Century: Melvyn Bragg examines what the architecture of the 20th century says about the age. by In Our Time: Culture
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Truth, Lies and Fiction: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether it matters if memoirs aren’t entirely truthful. by In Our Time: Culture
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Writing and Political Oppression: Melvyn Bragg examines whether writers have a political role in modern society. by In Our Time: Culture
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The Monarchy: Melvyn Bragg examines the enduring strengths and current role of the British monarchy. by In Our Time: Culture
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Yeats and Mysticism: Melvyn Bragg explores the strange and mystical world of the Irish poet W B Yeats. by In Our Time: Culture
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Capitalism: Melvyn Bragg examines the history of capitalism from Marx to the collapse of Communism. by In Our Time: Culture
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Materialism and the Consumer: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development and future of material culture. by In Our Time: Culture
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Reading: The history of the politics, practice and process of reading. by In Our Time: Culture
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Metamorphosis: Melvyn Bragg explores the enduring appeal of the Roman poet Ovid’s work Metamorphoses. by In Our Time: Culture
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Biography: Melvyn Bragg examines why the public is fascinated with the private lives of individuals. by In Our Time: Culture
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Multiculturalism: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century’s vast population and cultural shifts. by In Our Time: Culture
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The Renaissance: Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance. by In Our Time: Culture
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London: The history of London from its Neolithic origin to the digitalised capital city of today. by In Our Time: Culture
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Maths and Storytelling: Melvyn Bragg examines whether it is possible to apply mathematical logic to literature. by In Our Time: Culture
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Englishness: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the characteristics of the English identity. by In Our Time: Culture
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Existentialism: Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the 20th century philosophy of existentialism by In Our Time: Culture
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Literary Modernism: Melvyn Bragg examines the movement that embraced Joyce, DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. by In Our Time: Culture
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The Theory of the Leisure Class: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. by In Our Time: Culture
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Berthe Morisot: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism by In Our Time: Culture
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orwell's novel on totalitarianism, truth and surveillance. by In Our Time: Culture
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