Esoteric Symbols: The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka

by June Leavitt

Book Overview

In this pioneering scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Franz Kafka_three masters of symbolic expression_utilized Tarot cards in their poetry and prose. Focusing on the Tarot's ancient associations with divine knowledge, its pictorial representation of both the Jewish and Christian Cabala, and the Tarot's more recent pedestrian affiliation with the occult, June Leavitt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761836748
• ISBN13: 9780761836742
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"