Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature / edited by Lawrence Normand and Alison Winch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Normand, Lawrence, editor of compilation.

Winch, Alison, editor of compilation.

Series:

Continuum Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Buddhism in literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

"A wide-ranging critical examination of western literature's engagement with Buddhism in the twentieth century"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Contributor Details

Introduction

1. Reincarnation and Selfhood in Olive Schreiner's 'The Buddhist Priest's Wife' and Undine / Erin Louttit

2. Shangri-La and Buddhism in James Hilton's Lost Horizon and W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's The Ascent of F6 / Lawrence Normand

3. [A] 'ears of my ears': e. e. cummings' Buddhist prosody / Erin Lafford and Emma Mason

4. Zen Buddhism as Radical Conviviality in the Works of Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, and Thomas Merton / Manuel Yang

5. Radical Occidentalism: The Zen Anarchism of Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen / James Patrick Brown

6. Buddhism, Madness and Movement: Triangulating Jack Kerouac's Belief System / Bent Sorensen

7. Biology, the Buddha and the Beasts: The Influence of Ernst Haeckel and Arthur Schopenhauer on Samuel Beckett's How It Is / Andy Wimbush

8. 'That Other Ocean': Buddhism, Vedanta, and The Perennial Philosophy in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man / Bidhan Roy

9. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior as Mahayana Meditation / Sarah Gardam

10. The Aesthetics of Compassion in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea / Elena Spandri

11. Strange Entanglements: Buddhism and Quantum Theory in Contemporary Nonfiction / Sean Miller

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472543554

1472543556

9781441101914

1441101918

9781441108135

1441108130

OCLC:

879789104