Titelaufnahme

Challenge and choice -- The performative nature of language -- The revelation of the performative power and verbal functionalism of language -- Futility and hope: retaining the unretainable life in art as in real world -- Turbulent emotion that still moves as sculpted in perpetual tranquility -- Sounds of words and sounds of thunder and hope.

"Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land argues a prosodically explainable literary case regarding how a hidden phenomenon of verbal transformation serendipitously turns the conspicuous message of despair into the message of hope hidden in the text of The Waste Land"--