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Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature

Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature

Normand, Lawrence
Winch, Alison

Hardcover

Series: Continuum Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1441184767
ISBN13: 9781441184764
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 19 2013
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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