ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF T.S. ELIOT’S THE WASTE LAND
CALL FOR PAPERS
FOR PUBLICATION IN MEJO (MELOW Journal) 2022
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF T.S. ELIOT’S THE WASTE LAND
Right from the time of its publication a century ago, T.S. Eliot’s magnum opus, The Waste Land has had an uneasy life and much later also an uneasy after-life. Apart from its fragmented style, with a plethora of allusions, and the appended Notes, Eliot’s various comments on the poem have added to the difficulty of making sense of what was (or is) contained in the poem. When he called the poem “just a piece of rhythmical grumbling,” many critics like Edmund Wilson and much later Wyndham Lewis, latched on to it to show that the poem stemmed from his personal pain and anguish. Fortunately, critics now agree, as Russell Kirk has pointed out, that apart from dramatizing the “broken inner order of the soul,” the poem also draws attention to “the smashed outer order of European society.” Critics have scrutinized Eliot’s politics, his religious beliefs, and even his sexual orientation. Simultaneously, they have also applied to his work New Critical procedures, focusing on its inner life, its structure and texture, its language experiments, use of quotations, and other novelties and oddities.
A century later, when we look back at The Waste Land and try and assess its influence on the literature that followed, we see it as a watershed marking the Before and After of its publication. One could quickly look at the poem in two broad ways:
(i) the poem per se and the implication of what it contains within its 434 lines, and
(ii) the way the poem relates to the outer world and, by extension, its relevance to our times. The fact that the one-hundredth anniversary of the poem is being celebrated globally by academics and non-academics shows that it is an important landmark not only in terms of what it is but also because it has undeniably affected the course of poetry (and literature) during the last one hundred years.
Call for papers from MELOW aims to take a look at The Waste Land and its impact on the literature that followed in its wake.
Papers will be divided into two categories:
- I. The Poem: Papers dealing with the text itself, focusing on
- “He Do the Police in Many Voices” – The voices of The Waste Land.
- “These fragments have I shored...” – Classical allusions
- “Jug jug, jug jug” – The use of music in The Waste Land
- “Keep the Dog far hence” – T.S. Eliot’s Dead Gods and Anthropology
- “Burning Burning Burning” – Fire and its Uses in The Waste Land
- “They Wash their feet in Soda Water” – The Arid Waste and the Sound of Thunder
- “I had not thought death had undone so many” – The presence of Dante in The Waste Land
- II. The Aftermath and the Outreach: Assessing the impact of The Waste Land
- Is the poem just a period piece or does it cut across Spatio-temporal borders?
- The Waste Land in the Classroom today
- The Waste Land, aTradition, and the Individual Talent
- Shanti, Shanti: Eliot’s Indian connection
- The Waste Land as a literary influence on specific texts
- The Waste Land’s connection with Pop Culture
Those interested in the publication may send their full papers by the 15th of December 2022.
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Deadline for receipt of complete papers is the 15th of December 2022.
All papers will undergo a plagiarism check and will be peer-reviewed before they are accepted. Only those who submit their papers by the deadline will be eligible for publication.
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IMPORTANT DATES
15 December 2022: Deadline for Paper Submission
20 December 2022: Acceptance of papers to be sent
The guidelines for academic paper writing are as follows:
- The academic paper should be written within the 2500-3000 word limit.
- The paper should contain an abstract of 200 approx. words.
- Please write 5-8 keywords after the abstract.
- Please adhere to the MLA8 edition for formatting your academic paper.
- Please make sure your work is an original piece of writing and isn’t plagiarised or sent elsewhere for consideration.
- The submission of the paper does not ensure its publication. The paper undergoes a double-blind peer-review process. The publication of your paper depends on the result sent by the peer-reviewing committee. You will be informed about the selection of your paper for publication.
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MEJO, the revamped journal of MELOW has existed in hard print for about a decade. The latest issue, released in February 2022, comprises a selection of papers presented at the 21st MELOW Conference held at Shoolini University, Solan, HP.
Current Office Bearers of MELOW w.e.f. 1st April 2020
The Governing Body:
President: Prof. Manju Jaidka, Shoolini University, Solan, HP
Vice-President: Prof. Debarati Bandopadhyay, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal
Secretary: Prof. Manpreet Kaur Kang, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi
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Dr Seema Bhupendra (Udaipur)
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Dr Jyoti Mishra (Chattisgarh)
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Dr Radha Gautam (Surat)
Dr Neepa Sarkar (Bangalore)
Dr Meenu Gupta (Chandigarh)
Dr Jap Preet Bhangu (Longowal, Pb)
Prof M.L. Raina (Chandigarh)
Prof Sachidananda Mohanty (Orissa, India)
Prof Sushila Singh (Varanasi)
Dr Vijay Sharma (Delhi)
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Prof Giorgio Mariani (U of Rome, Italy)
Prof Rajeshwari Pandharipande (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Prof Mukesh Williams (Soka University, Japan)
Prof Pawel Jędrzejko (U of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
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Dr Khagendra Acharya (Nepal)
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