{"product_id":"desire-and-the-ascetic-ideal-buddhism-and-hinduism-in-the-works-of-t-s-eliot-9780813949987","title":"Desire and the Ascetic Ideal  Buddhism and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCentering on T.S. Eliot’s study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poet’s work, analysing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliot’s connection with Buddhist thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A valuable book, rich in insight and deeply knowledgeable about its subject. Upton has a smart, readable, and effective prose style. The kind of patient, knowledgeable, thoughtful elucidation that takes shape in \u003ci\u003eThe Education of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e has an important contribution to make, by illuminating Eliot’s engagements with sacred texts in Sanskrit and Pali, as mediated by Anglo-American, Japanese, and German specialists. There is no book in the last thirty years that has made such an important contribution to our understanding of Eliot and ancient Indian religious thought.” - Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia, author of \u003ci\u003ePoetry in a Global Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Eliot and Skillful Means\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Skillful Means and Asceticism in T.S. Elliot's Critique of Schopenhauer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. T.S. Eliot's \"Ars Religiosa\": Transmigration and Faith in Knowledge and Experience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. India among the Fragments: Pessimism and Desire in \"The Waste Land\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Language and the Cultivation of Desire in The Fire Sermon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Transcendence Revisited: Hallucination and Literary Asceticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Language in the Middle Way: T.S. Eliot's Engagement with Madhyamaka Buddhism in \"Four Quartets\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Performing the Divine Illusion: Memory, Desire, and the Performance of Form in \"Burnt Norton\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-VIR Uni of Virginia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49958506692951,"sku":"9780813949987","price":81.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813949987.jpg?v=1738993881","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/desire-and-the-ascetic-ideal-buddhism-and-hinduism-in-the-works-of-t-s-eliot-9780813949987","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}