English Literature A-Level
Dissociation of sensibility
What Dissociation of sensibility means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Eliot's concept describing a modern inability to integrate intellect with physical experience, so that contemporary society cannot confront mortality.
Topics that use Dissociation of sensibility
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Post-1900 – The Modernist Period – T S Eliot: Selected Poems (Faber, 2009) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Ageing and decay
- Breakdown of communication
- Class disparity
- Cultural fragmentation
- Death and mortality
- Intellect versus physicality
- Modern alienation
- Modern spiritual decay
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