T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal

Author:   Joshua Richards
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   225
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9789004520134


Pages:   182
Publication Date:   25 May 2022
Format:   Paperback
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In T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal, Joshua Richards charts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot’s interaction with asceticism. This history is drawn from Eliot’s own education in the topic with the texts he read integrated into detailed textual analysis. Eliot’s early encounters with the ascetic ideal began a lifetime of interplay and reflection upon self-denial, purgation, and self-surrender. In 1909, he began a study of mysticism, likely, in George Santayana’s seminar, and thereafter showed the influence of this education. Yet, his interaction with the ascetic ideal and his background in mysticism was not a simple thing; still, his early cynicism was slowly transformed to an embrace.

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Author:   Joshua Richards
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   225
Weight:   0.328kg
ISBN:  

9789004520134


ISBN 10:   9004520139
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   25 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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“In this study, Joshua Richards refuses to allow “mysticism” to stand in as a vague placeholder for complicated theology and instead offers a meticulous and revealing account of T. S. Eliot’s lifelong engagement with Christian asceticism, a key component of the Christian mystical tradition more broadly.” -Ann Marie Jakubowski, Washington University, in Time Present: The Newsletter of the International T. S. Eliot Society, vol. 103, 2021, pp. 6-17


In this study, Joshua Richards refuses to allow mysticism to stand in as a vague placeholder for complicated theology and instead offers a meticulous and revealing account of T. S. Eliot's lifelong engagement with Christian asceticism, a key component of the Christian mystical tradition more broadly. -Ann Marie Jakubowski, Washington University, in Time Present: The Newsletter of the International T. S. Eliot Society, vol. 103, 2021, pp. 6-17


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Joshua Richards, Ph.D. (2012), University of St Andrews, is Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Panhandle State University. While he focuses on T. S. Eliot, he has also written on George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, and J. K. Rowling.

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