{"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 Hinduism in the Works of T. S. Eliot","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hindu words \"Shantih shantih shantih\" provide the closing of \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e, perhaps the most famous poem of the twentieth century. This is just one example among many of T. S. Eliot's immersion in Sanskrit and Indian philosophy and of how this fascination strongly influenced his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentering on Eliot's study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poet's work, analyzing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliot's connection with Buddhist thought. 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. Full of such insights, Upton's book represents an important intervention in modernist studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Upton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Studies in Religion and Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813949987","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440561328265,"sku":"9780813949987","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c845ddb3-18a6-4980-8b83-b2e6fc5772bd.jpg?v=1716239062","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/desire-and-the-ascetic-ideal-buddhism-and-hinduism-in-the-works-of-t-s-eliot-9780813949987","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}