Prufrock at a Century

  1. Jefferey Simons 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Huelva
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    Universidad de Huelva

    Huelva, España

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Journal:
Erebea: Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales

ISSN: 0214-0691,  2530-8254

Year of publication: 2015

Issue Title: Las religiones como encrucijada

Issue: 5

Pages: 307-324

Type: Article

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Abstract

This essay glosses the identity of J. Alfred Prufrock, the persona who voices T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915). The essay begins by looking at the nature of proper names, and it then glosses the identity of Prufrock with lyric, socio-historical, and authorial formulation, along with the formulation of impasse and despair. The essay sees Prufrock voice a divide between erudite thought and immanent sexual energy, and it ends by positing a variable in identity beyond social determination.

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