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Desire and the ascetic ideal : Buddhism and Hinduism in the works of T. S. Eliot
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"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 suggesti...
"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 Centering his study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poet's work, analyzing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliot's connection with Buddhist thought"--
Details
- Creator
- Edward Upton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, 2023
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780813950501, 9780813949987, 0813950503
- OCLC
- on1381732703, on1394120631
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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