Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIJanus-Faced Modernism1Toward the Institute of Literature and Tradition3IITate: The Right Kind of Modernism2The Realism of The Waste Land333Genius and the Rational Order of Criticism494The Burial of the Confederate Dead80Coda. "Mrs. Tate's" Tombstone105IIICrane: Modernism in Reverse5A Resurrection of Some Kind1176Dice of Drowned Men's Bones1457The Floating Singer of The Bridge171Coda. Unanswered Questions204IVBeyond Modernism211Notes233Works Cited261Index273