TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nowmand,Lawrence
AU  - Normand,Lawrence
AU  - Winch,Alison
TI  - Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature
SN  - 9781441184764 (hardcover)
AV  - PR478.B83 E53 2013
U1  - 820.9382943 22
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Buddhism in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Include index
N2  - "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"--; "A wide-ranging critical examination of western literature's engagement with Buddhism in the twentieth century"--
ER  -