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Bergson, Eliot, andAmerican Literature This page intentionally left blank Bergson, Eliot, AND American Literature PAUL DOUGLASS ea., THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY Publicationofthisbookhasbeenassistedbyagrantfrom MercerUniversity. Copyright© 1986byTheUniversityPressofKentucky ScholarlypublisherfortheCommonwealth,servingBellarmineCollege, BereaCollege,CentreCollegeofKentucky, EasternKentuckyUniversit)T, TheFilsonClub,GeorgetownCollege,KentuckyHistoricalSociety,Kentucky StateUniversity,MoreheadStateUniversity, MurrayStateUniversity,Northern KentuckyUniversit)T,TransylvaniaUniversit)T, UniversityofKentucky, University ofLouisville, andWesternKentuckyUniversity. EditorialandSalesOffices: Lexington, Kentucky40506~0024 LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGING~IN~PUBLICATIONDATA Douglass, Paul, 1951- Bergson,Eliot,andAmericanliterature. Bibliography:p. Includesindex. 1.Americanliterature-20thcentury-Historyand criticism. 2. Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941-Influence. 3.Eliot,T.S. (ThomasStearns), 1888-196S-Criticism andinterpretation. 4.Criticism-UnitedStates. I.Tide. PS228.B47D68 1986 8108.980052 86..9227 ISBN 978-0-8131-6016-0 To CHARLENE This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix ANote on the Texts andAbbreviations Used xi Introduction 1 1. Bergson and Bergsonism 7 2. Bergsonian Intuition and ModernistAesthetics 27 3. Eliot's Unacknowledged Debt 49 4. Time, Intuition, and Self..Knowledge in Eliot's Poetry 83 5. Eliot, Bergson, andthe Southern Critics 106 6. Deciphering Faulkner's Uninterrupted Sentence 118 7. Faulknerandthe Bergsonian Self 142 8. Bergson andAmerican Modernism 166 Notes 179 Selected Bibliography 195 Index 203 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ~ Mycolleaguesandfriends StevenAxelrodandFrederickBur.. wickgavemeindispensablesupportin revisingthisbook. Professor RichardLehan hasbeen mymentor, thesortmanyhopeforbutfew encounter. In the early stages of my work, the University of Cali.. fornia at Los Angeles gave me atravel grantto consult materials in the Houghton Library of Harvard Universit)T, for which I express my gratitude. I am also grateful to Mercer University for having provided funds necessary for the completion and typing of this study. I thank Jan Duke and Debbi Legner, who typed and keyed in the manuscript at different points in its metamorphosis. Professor Sanford Schwartz generously commented on the manuscript in its final stages. Jeremyand Regan, thankyou forbeing understanding. Thought has graciously allowed publication here of material which had appeared in its pages in slightly different form. I am in the debt of Mrs. Valerie Eliot and Faber and Faberfor permission toquotefrom unpublishedmanuscripts: reprintedbypermissionof Valerie Eliot and Faber and Faber Ltd., © copyright Mrs. Valerie Eliot 1986.