T. S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday: a Philosophical Approach to Empowering the Feminine
Description:
In his 1916 dissertation, Eliot asserted that individuals were locked into finite centers and that all knowledge was epistemologically relative, but he also believed that finite centers could be transcended through language. In the essay "Lancelot Andrewes,'" Eliot identified Andrewes's "relevant intensity," a method very close to nonsensical verse. Eliot used Andrewes's Word and the impersonality of nonsense verse in Ash Wednesday. The Word, God's logos, embodied the Virgin Mary as its source,…
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Date:
August 1992
Creator:
Adams, Stephen D. (Stephen Duane)
Partner:
UNT Libraries