Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Titolo: | The emergence of Buddhist American literature / / edited by John Whalen-Bridge, Gary Storhoff ; foreword by Mazine Hong Kingston and afterword by Charles Johnson |
Pubblicazione: | Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | xii, 255 p |
Disciplina: | 810.9/382943 |
Soggetto topico: | American literature - Buddhist authors - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
American literature - Buddhist influences | |
Buddhism in literature | |
Buddhism and literature - United States | |
Altri autori: | Whalen-BridgeJohn <1961-> StorhoffGary <1947-> |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Literature as vehicle: transmission and transformation. The emptiness of patterned flux : Ernest Fenollosa's Buddhist essay "The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry" / Jonathan Stalling -- Gary Snyder's selective way to Cold Mountain : domesticating Han Shan / Yuemin He -- John Giorno : Buddhism, poetry, and transgression / Marcus Boon -- Buddhadharma and poetry without credentials / Michael Heller -- Zen, Vajrayana, and the avant-garde : a pluralistic poetics. Finger pointing at the moon : Zen and the poetry of Philip Whalen / Jane Falk -- Keeping vision alive : the Buddhist stillpoint in the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg / Erik Mortenson -- Illumination through the cracks : the melting down of conventional socio-religious thought and practice in the work of Gary Snyder / Tom Lavazzi -- The American poetic diamond vehicle : Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman re-work Vajrayana Buddhism / Jane Augustine -- Widening the circle : Buddhism and American writers of color. Buddhism, Chinese religion, and the ceremony of writing : an interview with Maxine Hong Kingston / John Whalen-Bridge -- A bridge between two worlds : crossing to America in Monkey bridge / Hanh Nguyen and R.C. Lutz -- 'Opening the hand of thought' : the meditative mind in Charles Johnson's Dr. King's refrigerator and other bedtime stories / Gary Storhoff. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The emergence of Buddhist American literature |
ISBN: | 1-4384-2659-3 |
1-4416-1762-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825004903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |