LEADER 04358nam 22006611 450 001 9910787508703321 005 20131104173929.0 010 $a1-4725-4355-6 010 $a1-4411-0191-8 010 $a1-4411-0813-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472543554 035 $a(CKB)2670000000427744 035 $a(EBL)1412160 035 $a(OCoLC)879789104 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036962 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12458674 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036962 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11042390 035 $a(PQKB)10577120 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1412160 035 $a(OCoLC)869281977 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09256601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6161790 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000427744 100 $a20140929d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEncountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature /$fedited by Lawrence Normand and Alison Winch 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 225 0 $aContinuum Literary Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4742-3285-X 311 $a1-4411-8476-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $a"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. 330 $a"A wide-ranging critical examination of western literature's engagement with Buddhism in the twentieth century"--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBuddhism in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $2Literary studies: from c 1900 - 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBuddhism in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/382943 686 $aLIT000000$2bisacsh 702 $aNormand$b Lawrence 702 $aWinch$b Alison 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787508703321 996 $aEncountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature$93773071 997 $aUNINA