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Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Colección: | Continuum Literary Studies
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 10 The Aesthetics of Compassion in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea
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- 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.