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Tireseas and other seers in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"

Name: Tireseas and other seers in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
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Author: Patrick Trapp
ISBN: 978-3-640-76818-9

Term Paper, 2006

13 Pages, Grade: 1,7

Patrick Trapp (Author)

Excerpt

1. Introduction

2. The origin of the three seers
2.1. Sybil of Cumae in Ovid’s Metamorphosis and in Petronius’ Satyricon
2.2. Tireseas in Ovid’s Metamorphosis and in Sophocles’ The Three Theban Plays
2.3. Madame Sosostris

3. The use of stories from antiquity in modernists’ writing and in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

4. Foreseeing in The Waste Land
4.1. Preface to the poem
4.2. Madame Sosostris in The Waste Land
4.3. The Tireseas figure in the poem

5. Conclusion

6. Bibliography

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Title: Tireseas and other seers in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
College: RWTH Aachen University
Grade: 1,7
Author: Patrick Trapp (Author)
Year: 2006
Pages: 13
Catalog Number: V161686
ISBN (eBook): 9783640767854
ISBN (Book): 9783640768189
File size: 522 KB
Language: English
Keywords: T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, Tireseas, Madame Sosostris, The Three Theban Plays, Metamorphosis

Quote paper: Patrick Trapp (Author), 2006, Tireseas and other seers in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/161686

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