Satellite culture and Ekiot's Glencoe
- Autores: Nancy K. Gish
- Localización: Complutense Journal of English Studies, ISSN 2386-3935, Nº. 22, 2014, págs. 35-40
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
T. S. Eliot�s one poem about Scotland is a verbal response to landscape unparalleled in his work and significant in its recognition of what cannot be appropriated or assimilated. Although one critic, in 1975, called it Eliot�s �only great short lyric,� it has almost never been discussed or even mentioned in subsequent criticism. In its recognition, however, of a scene and history beyond what his other work reveals, �Rannoch, by Glencoe� not only represents a momentary realization of history and geography outside his own, it counters Eliot�s social analysis of cultures he defines as �satellite,� or subsidiary to his concept of �the greater peoples.� In �Notes towards the Definition of Culture,� Eliot argues that the importance of literature from �regions� combines the �stronger� culture�s connection of the satellite to the �world at large� and the �satellite� culture�s contributions to developing and enriching the �stronger.� Yet in �Rannoch, by Glencoe� Scotland and its tragic history are merged in a landscape and consciousness with power and significance in and for Scotland itself.
