| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Religion and Culture |
| Contents |
Introduction : Eliot and skillful means -- Skillful means and asceticism in T.S. Eliot's critique of Schopenhauer -- T.S. Eliot's Ars religiosa : transmigration and faith in knowledge and experience -- India among the fragments : pessimism and desire in The waste land -- Language and the cultivation of desire in "The fire sermon" -- Transcendence revisited : hallucination and literary asceticism -- Language in the middle way : T.S. Eliot's engagement with Madhyamaka Buddhism in Four quartets -- Performing the divine illusion : memory, desire, and the performance of form in Burnt Norton |
| Summary |
"T.S. Eliot was crucially influenced by his early engagement with Indian texts, and when analyzed through this lens, his poems reveal a criticism of the attachments of human desire and the suggestion that asceticism might hold out the possibility that desire can be cultivated toward a metaphysical absolute. Centering his study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poet's work, analyzing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliot's connection with Buddhist thought"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2023) |
| Subject |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Religion
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast |
| Subject |
Buddhism in literature.
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Hinduism in literature.
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Buddhism in literature
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Hinduism in literature
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Religion
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023011333 |
| ISBN |
0813950503 |
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9780813950501 |
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