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    T.S. Eliot's W. Steven's Poetics : Between the American and the European Traditions
    (Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2024) Abdellatif, Schems
    This thesis, entitled” T.S. Eliot’s and W. Stevens’ Poetics between American and European Traditions” critically examines the dichotomy of classification imposed by 20th-century critics on Modernist writers, categorizing them into two opposing groups: Paleo and Neo-Modernists. The study focuses on evaluating the credibility of this classification method by closely analyzing the works of two influential figures of Modernism: Thomas Stearns Eliot, representing the Paleo-Modernist trend with classicist, elitist, and cosmopolitan attributes, and Wallace Stevens, embodying the Neo-Modernist trend with Americanist, nativist, and nationalist characteristics. Through an exploration of their poetry, particularly in the 1920s, this work illustrates how the proposition that a poet exclusively belongs to one group to the exclusion of the other holds true. In the comparative analysis, three influence theories—Julia Kristeva's Intertextuality, Victor Shlovsky's Deconstruction, and Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence—prove instrumental in unveiling the poets' meticulous efforts to navigate and avoid succumbing to the overwhelming influence of their predecessors and contemporaries. Eliot's adherence to European culture and Stevens' rejection of it contribute to the stark opposition between the two poets. However, an exclusive focus on their differences reveals the limitations of this method, rendering reconciliation nearly impossible and oversimplifying their complex relationship. Despite Eliot's cosmopolitanism rooted in European tradition, his poetry exhibits a substantial level of intertextuality with American predecessors he ostensibly rejects. Both poets respond to the cultural imperatives of their time: to create an objective and modern poetry .by drawing from common American and European literary sources such as Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Dante Alighieri, John Donne, the English Metaphysical poets, British Romantics, and French Symbolists.