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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Main Author: Upton, Edward 1973- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Charlottesville London University of Virginia Press 2023
In:Year: 2023
Series/Journal:Studies in religion and culture
Further subjects:B Buddhism in literature
B Eliot, T. S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965) Religion
B Eliot, T. S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965) Criticism and interpretation
B Hinduism in literature
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Upton, Edward, 1973-: Desire and the ascetic ideal. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023. - 9780813950501

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