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1 online resource |
| Series |
Continuum Literary Studies |
| Contents |
Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The nineteenth-century origins of Buddhism in the West -- Buddhist hybridity -- The making of Buddhist modernism -- The Parliament of the World's Religions -- Literature and Buddhism -- Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia -- The self, emptiness and meditation -- Note -- 1 Reincarnation and Selfhood in Olive Schreiner's 'The Buddhist Priest's Wife' and Undine -- Notes -- 2 Shangri-La and Buddhism in James Hilton's Lost Horizon and W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's The Ascent of F6 -- Notes -- 3 'ears of my ears': e. e. cummings' Buddhist Prosody -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- 4 Zen Buddhism as Radical Conviviality in the Works of Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth and Thomas Merton -- Henry Miller's Zen aesthetics and critique of modernity -- Kenneth Rexroth's Anarcho-Buddhist poetics -- Thomas Merton's convivial encounter with Buddhism -- 5 Radical Occidentalism: The Zen Anarchism of Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen -- Notes -- 6 Buddhism, Madness and Movement: Triangulating Jack Kerouac's Belief System -- Mexico and hybrid faith -- Madness -- Movement -- 7 Biology, the Buddha and the Beasts: The Influence of Ernst Haeckel and Arthur Schopenhauer on Samuel Beckett's How It Is -- The Western religious epic in How It Is -- Darwin and the natural order -- The eastern sage -- Victims and tormentors -- The end of suffering? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 'That other ocean': Buddhism, Vedanta and The Perennial Philosophy in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man -- Isherwood and The Perennial Philosophy -- Representing 'that other ocean' in A Single Man -- Notes -- 9 Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior as Mahāyāna Meditation -- Talk-story -- Literatures of the fantastic -- Mother meditation -- Non-conceptual knowledge and contemplation -- Note |
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10 The Aesthetics of Compassion in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 11 Strange Entanglements: Buddhism and Quantum Theory in Contemporary Nonfiction -- The Zen of quantum theory -- Quantum theory and Tibetan emptiness -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright |
| Summary |
"Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature explores the ways in which twentieth-century literature has been influenced by Buddhism, and has been, in turn, a major factor in bringing about Buddhism's increasing spread and influence in the West. Focussing on Britain and the United States, Buddhism's influence on a range of key literary texts will be examined in the context of those societies' evolving modernity. Writers discussed include T.S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, J.D. Salinger, Iris Murdoch, Maxine Hong Kingston. This book brings together for the first time a series of context-rich interpretations that demonstrate the importance of literature in this ongoing cultural change in Britain and the United States"-- Provided by publisher |
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"A wide-ranging critical examination of western literature's engagement with Buddhism in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
WE HAVE BEEN GRANTED TEMPORARY ACCESS TO THIS TITLE |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Finding Aid |
Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue |
| Subject |
Buddhism in literature.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American literature
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Buddhism in literature
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English literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Normand, Lawrence, editor
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Winch, Alison, editor
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| ISBN |
9781472543554 |
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1472543556 |
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9781441101914 |
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1441184767 |
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9781441184764 |
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1441108130 |
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9781441108135 |
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1441101918 |
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9781441101914 |
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9781306727105 |
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1306727103 |
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