What is TS Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral' about?

Lawrence S. Rainey and Robert Von Hallberg - Editorial/Introduction - Modernism/Modernity 1:1 Modernism/Modernity 1.1 (1994) 1-3 Editorial/Introduction Lawrence Rainey and Robert von Hallberg We begin this journal in the belief that the artistic movement known as modernism produced the most radical and comprehensive changes in western culture since romanticism. Here would be the place to list those changes, if only they were all nameable and known, like characters in a chapter of yesterday's reading. Instead we sense that the effects of modernism still reverberate through all the arts, and its products surround us in the buildings where we work, the houses and apartments where we live, and even the chairs where we sit now trying to itemize its effects. Modernism was more than a repertory of artistic styles, more too than an intellectual movement or set of ideas; it initiated an ongoing transformation in the entire set of relations governing the production, transmission, and reception of the arts. The...