Encountering Buddhism in twentieth-century British and American literature. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lawrence Normand and Alison Winch.
• Editors: Normand, Lawrence; Winch, Alison
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Contributor DetailsIntroduction1. Reincarnation and Selfhood in Olive Schreiner's 'The Buddhist Priest's Wife' and Undine Erin Louttit2. Shangri-La and Buddhism in James Hilton's Lost Horizon and W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's The Ascent of F6 Lawrence Normand3. [A] 'ears of my ears': e. e. cummings' Buddhist prosody Erin Lafford and Emma Mason4. Zen Buddhism as Radical Conviviality in the Works of Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, and Thomas Merton Manuel Yang5. Radical Occidentalism: The Zen Anarchism of Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen James Patrick Brown6. Buddhism, Madness and Movement: Triangulating Jack Kerouac's Belief System Bent Sorensen7. Biology, the Buddha and the Beasts: The Influence of Ernst Haeckel and Arthur Schopenhauer on Samuel Beckett's How It Is Andy Wimbush8. 'That Other Ocean': Buddhism, Vedanta, and The Perennial Philosophy in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man. Bidhan Roy9. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior as Mahayana Meditation Sarah Gardam10. The Aesthetics of Compassion in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea Elena Spandri11. Strange Entanglements: Buddhism and Quantum Theory in Contemporary Nonfiction Sean MillerBibliography.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 238 pages)
• Subjects: 820.9/382943; Literary Criticism -- General; Buddhism in literature; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Buddhism in literature; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; American literature; Buddhism in literature; English literature; Englisch; Literatur; Buddhismus; Literary studies: from c 1900; USA; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441101914; 1441101918
• Related ISBNs: 9781441184764; 1441184767; 9781441108135; 1441101918; 1441108130
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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