Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature / edited by Lawrence Normand and Alison Winch.
By: Nowmand,Lawrence.
Contributor(s): Normand, Lawrence [editor of compilation.] | Winch, Alison [editor of compilation.].
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013Description: ix, 238 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 9781441184764 (hardcover).Subject(s): Buddhism in literature | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | LITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralDDC classification: 820.9382943 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.Summary: "A wide-ranging critical examination of western literature's engagement with Buddhism in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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"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.
"A wide-ranging critical examination of western literature's engagement with Buddhism in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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