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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University of Virginia Press
2023
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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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