The link between modernization and the loss of religious belief in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: When World War I and II shake the European society at the beginning of the 20th Century first the fascination and national pride, then the horror and deadly fear of war had an immense impact on literature. High expectancies and the insurance of an early victory were used to ...