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Desire and the Ascetic Ideal : Buddhism and Hinduism in the Works of T. S. Eliot /

"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 metaphysi...

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Autor principal: Upton, Edward, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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