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ABOUT THE PROJECT
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The main question behind this project is: “dealing with the crisis of communication through communication itself: analysing how male and female voices in The Waste Land portray the drought of feelings and the loss of communication.”
The goal of the project is to answer the question of how female and male voices represent the aridity of feelings and difficulty of relationships in the post-war context portrayed in The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. The work of Eliot portrays, particularly in the chapter A game of chess, a post-war society in which communication between individuals becomes impossible and relationships don’t have a concrete and solid meaning, people are not used to being in a society anymore. My project aims to portray the words and sentences in the work that convey this type of feeling and sentiment, to give light to the words and association of words that express these meanings of alienation, aridity and loss of self. The Waste Land is a very complex work, and its meaning is somehow obscure when first read. My analysis of the words strives to meet the goal of understanding in a deep way how the words pronounced in the work by male voices carry a different meaning from the female voices, even when they are referring to the same aspects of life and society. The analysis that I have provided via Hypothesis can help students grasp the meaning of the work, but further examination will be needed in order to have a full understanding of the complex work of Eliot.
The site also offers insights about Eliot's life and works.
THE TARGET
THE TARGET
The public that I have envisioned for this project consists of english-speaking students (who, preferably, have a previous background in the field of english literature) that want to understand The Waste Land better and want to study the work in a new, more engaging way through the tools of digital humanities.
The students, or the people who will consult the site, will have a deeper understanding of the topic that I have mentioned in the "About the project" section, and will hopefully consider using tools like Voyant and Hypothesis to undertand better a topic and will also test their knowledge in a fun and easy way.
CREDITS
CREDITS
The paintings appear in this order:
Hieronymus Bosch, Christ Descent into Hell. 1550–75. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Homepage and introduction to The Waste Land.)
Vedder Elihu, The Cumean Sibyl, 1876. Detroit Institute of Arts, USA. (Epigraph)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death, c. 1562. Museum of Prado, Madrid. (The Burial of the Dead)
Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932. Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska. (A Game of Chess)
Claude Monet, Le Parlement, soleil couchant dans il brouillard, 1904. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (The Fire Sermon)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, De val van Icarus, c. 1558. Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles. (Death by Water)
Aelbert Cuyp, Thunderstorm over Dordrecht , c. 1645. Private collection. (What the Thunder Said)
Paul Nash, The Menin Road, 1919. Imperial War Museum, Londra. (The Drought of feelings)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://archive.org/details/wasteland01elio/page/16/mode/2up
https://tseliot.com/editorials/the-life-of-ts-eliot
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/t-s-eliot
https://poets.org/poet/t-s-eliot
https://davidfrum.com/article/t-s-eliot-anti-semitism-and-literary-form
https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=04-03-023-v
https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Mortals/Cumaean_Sibyl/cumaean_sibyl.html
https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/the-waste-land/
https://www.rlf.org.uk/posts/he-do-the-police-in-different-voices/
ABOUT ME
ABOUT ME
My name is Rebecca Alpignano and I am 22 years old. I have attended a bachelor's degree in Cultures and Literatures of the Modern World at the University of Turin and I am currently attending a post graduate degree in English and American Studies.
This is a Digital Humanities Project.
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