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A Portrait of the Artist as a Bricoleur attempts to shed light on the genesis of the work of Art as understood by T. S. Eliot, the most prominent figure of the modernists. Dr. Nsiri discusses the trajectory between tradition and the individual talent and tries to question some of the assumptions that affect the understanding of both. Eliot´s ideas on tradition, the impersonal theory of poetry, and the individual talent are essential in understanding the modernists and their struggle to make it new . This book is not just a close reading of as well as an insight into the pattern of Eliot´s The Waste Land and Tradition and the Individual Talent, but a journey into the rich possibilities that literature offers as the writer weaves the disparate material into a coherent work. The discussion of what makes a work of art offers a window that connects the modern with the postmodern.

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Dr. Imed Nsiri earned three MA degrees and a Double PhD in Arabic and Comparative Literature from Indiana University. Dr. Nsiri taught English language and literature at the University of Tunis, and Arabic at Indiana University, and the American University of Sharjah.His research is in Arabic literature and music as well as comparative literature.

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