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The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East

The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East

Goedhals, Antony

Hardcover

Literary CriticismBuddhism

ISBN10: 9004430326
ISBN13: 9789004430327
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 1 2020
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East by Antony Goedhals offers radical rereadings of a misunderstood and undervalued Victorian writer. It reveals that at the metaphysical core of Lafcadio Hearn's writings is a Buddhist vision as yet unappreciated by his critics and biographers. Beginning with the American writings and ending with the essay- and story-meditations of the Japanese period, the book demonstrates Hearn's deeply personal and transcendently beautiful evocations of a Buddhist universe, and shows how these deconstruct and dissolve the categories of Western discourse and thinking about reality - to create a new language, a poetry of vastness, emptiness, and oneness that had not been heard before in English, or, indeed, in the West.

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