Allusions in Context
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| + | Network B shows a network of only the religious allusions in “The Wasteland,” sorted by which religious tradition they are a part of. From the network, it is easy to see that more than half of the religious allusions in “The Wasteland” are Christian references: books of the Bible, events in the life of Jesus, people of the Bible, and one religious rite. It is interesting that all the religious allusions that fall under other subcategories are references to people within that religious/mythic tradition, with the exception only of Tarot cards. Not only do the Christian references outnumber the others, but they also encompass a wider variety of what things are alluded to. This probably implies that Eliot’s contemporary audience was the most familiar with Christianity, and therefore also more aware of its details, so those references would trigger the most meaningful responses. | ||
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| + | ''Network C: Allusions in other pieces from The Criterion and The Dial from October/November 1922'' | ||
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| + | Moving forward, Network C shows what the allusions from the content in the rest of The Criterion and The Dial look like. It is laid out similarly to Network A: the types of allusions are spread across the top of the image, with the two magazines’ names at the bottom, and the names of the pieces within the magazines on the right side of the image. As in “The Wasteland,” religion is one of the most common categories of allusions in the two magazines. Network D exhibits the relationship between the different types of religious allusions from all three sources. | ||
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| + | ''Network D: Religion in The Criterion, The Dial, and “The Wasteland”'' | ||
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