The Pantomime Cat: T. S. Eliot and Hebrew-Christian Dynamics
“Eliot's view of society reflects his aversion to sexuality and his disparagement of womanhood. He despised democracy and the notion of liberty of conscience. He thought that the virtue of tolerance was vastly overestimated, and he did not mind being called a bigot. He dismissed the sixteenth-c...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1988
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Theology today
Year: 1988, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 450-461 |
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Summary: | “Eliot's view of society reflects his aversion to sexuality and his disparagement of womanhood. He despised democracy and the notion of liberty of conscience. He thought that the virtue of tolerance was vastly overestimated, and he did not mind being called a bigot. He dismissed the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, both in England and on the Continent, as ‘the disintegration of European culture’.” |
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ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057368804400405 |