Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth Century British and American - Literatur

Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature explores the ways in which 20th-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.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Normand, Lawrence Winch Normand, Alison Winch
• Assisted by: Lawrence Normand (Editor), Alison Winch (Editor), Winch Alison (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2013
• EAN: 9781441184764
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-8476-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Continuum Literary Studies; Continuum Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Buddhism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000