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“Set my lands in order”: States of Exception, the Cinematic, and The Waste Land
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 1, March 2016
- pp. 111-127
- 10.1353/mos.2016.0006
- Article
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After describing how states of exception are understood differently by T.S. Eliot and his German contemporary Carl Schmitt, this essay draws upon recent discussions concerning cinema and literature to trace how The Waste Land, by disrupting networks that normally capture and coordinate conviction, helps us see that the way we frame things matters.