{"product_id":"t-s-eliot-and-indic-traditions","title":"T S Eliot and Indic Traditions","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Cleo McNelly Kearns\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Samvad India\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1987\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 314\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8190131818\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eT S Eliot’s allusions to Indic philosophy in several poems, from the Sanskrit ending of The Waste Land to the What Krishna meant section of Four Quartets have puzzled and intrigued readers since the poems first appeared. In T S Eliot and Indic Traditions, Cleo McNelly Kearns laces Eliot’s lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion in the context of his concomitant studies in Western philosophy and his views on literary theory and poetic practice. The author establishes the depth and extent of his knowledge of not only Sanskrit and Pali texts but also of the scholarly tradition through which they were interpreted in the West. She explores as well Eliot’s keen sense of the important distinctions between specific schools of thought. Kearns concludes that Eliot was less intenerated in synthesizing various traditions than in comparing the texts for what he called the difference they can make to one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the influence on Eliot of such thinkers as Irving Babbitt, Paul Elmer More, F H Bradley, William James, and Bertrand Russell, the author shows how the realist-idealist debates in Western philosophy shaped Eliot’s understanding of Indic thought. Kearns also studies the important ramifications of Indic philosophy for Eliot’s religious development and for his poetic theory and practice. In the light of recent work in literary theory, she discusses the difference made to Eliot’s reading of Indic texts by his acceptance of the Anglican Communion and examines his changing relation to a series of precursors in the use of Indic thought in literature from the early Romantics through the Symbolists and Moderns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT S Eliot and Indic Traditions includes detailed discussions of essays, poems, and plays. The emphasis throughout is not only on specific allusions to Indic material, but also on patters of thought and characteristic modes of expression that color and subtly alter the poet’s more overtly Western and Christian world. The book culminates in an extended analysis of the way Indic philosophic traditions inform and illuminate The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Eliot’s poetic plays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKearns’ argument is original, her scholarship rigorous, and her account of Eastern speculation come alive within The Waste Land persuasive, this is the first study of Eliot I’ve seen that knows the difference between Eastern speculation or metaphysical philosophy and Eastern religion, and to realize that Eliot’s interests and affinities were with the former and not the latter. But best of all, this goes on to present a fresh reading of The Waste Land which seems to me both more comprehensive and more cognitively acute than any before it.\u003cbr\u003e-Harold Bloom\u003cbr\u003eSterling professor in the Humanities, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT S Eliot and Indic Traditions, traces with creditable aplomb a virtual genealogy of Eliot’s poetic tradition. Kearns is about the only commentator on Eliot’s Indian sources who has given us an as yet unrivaled account of them. Her method is to put us on luminous trails, offer speculative asides as we proceed, and ground us firmly in sources whose relations we begin to see more clearly than before. Kearns tells us, for example, that the voice of Eliot’s wisdom owes as much to the Vedic and Buddhist discourses as it does to its does to its putative Western sources. That perhaps we might have sensed but not quite known till Kearns shows it to us.\u003cbr\u003e-K Narayana Chandran \u003cbr\u003eProfessor of English, University of Hyderabad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I: SOURCES AND TRADITIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTradition and the individual reader\u003cbr\u003eSurrender and recovery\u003cbr\u003eMetaphysics and wisdom\u003cbr\u003eTexts and teachers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHindu traditions\u003cbr\u003eVedas and Upanishads\u003cbr\u003eShankara and Paul Deussen\u003cbr\u003eThe Bhagavad Gita\u003cbr\u003ePatanjali and James Woods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuddhist traditions\u003cbr\u003eHenry Clarke Warren and the Pali Canon\u003cbr\u003eMasaharu Anesaki and Mahayana Buddhism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II: COMMUNITIES OF INTERPRETATIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophical issues\u003cbr\u003eRealism and idealism\u003cbr\u003eJosiah Royce and the Upanishads\u003cbr\u003eBradley, Vedanta and Nagarjuna\u003cbr\u003eBertrand Russell and the New Realism\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge and Experience as an ars poetica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReligious points of view\u003cbr\u003eWilliam James and counter conversions\u003cbr\u003eBabbitt, More, and the need for roots\u003cbr\u003eRoger, Vittoz and meditation\u003cbr\u003eThe Anglican Middle Way\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary influences\u003cbr\u003eThe Oriental Renaissance\u003cbr\u003eThe American sublime\u003cbr\u003eThe anxieties of influence\u003cbr\u003eWhitman\u003cbr\u003eYeats\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III: METAPHYSICS AND WISDOM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMetaphysics in The Waste Land\u003cbr\u003eThe reader as Parsival Memory and desire\u003cbr\u003eTiresias: ego or Seer\u003cbr\u003ePhlebas: the meditation on death \u003cbr\u003eRepeating the rain mantra \u003cbr\u003eFrom Da to Damyata\u003cbr\u003eSovegna vos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWisdom in Four Quartets\u003cbr\u003eCritique of immediate experience: Burnt Norton\u003cbr\u003eRaid on the inarticulate: East Coker\u003cbr\u003eWhat Krishna meant: The Dry Salvages\u003cbr\u003eThe simplicity of wisdom: Little Gidding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrama and dispassion\u003cbr\u003eGenre trouble\u003cbr\u003eKarma and negative incarnations\u003cbr\u003eWitness and dissociation\u003cbr\u003eThe way to freedom\u003cbr\u003eDeparting in several directions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorks cited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Cleo McNelly Kearns \/ Samvad India \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153608962416,"sku":"14141","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/14141.jpg?v=1793911576","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/t-s-eliot-and-indic-traditions","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}