Writing as Enlightenment
Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2011
207 pages
978-1-4384-3921-1 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the prevalence of Buddhist ideas in American literature since the 1970s.
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English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
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Total Illustrations: 0
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ISBN-13
978-1-4384-3921-1 (9781438439211)
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John Whalen-Bridge | Gary Storhoff
Writing as Enlightenment
Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century
Book
08/2011
State University of New York Press
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John Whalen-Bridge | Gary Storhoff
Writing as Enlightenment
Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century
Book
08/2011
State University of New York Press
€34.00
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. His books include Norman Mailer's Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest. Gary Storhoff is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. He is the author of Understanding Charles Johnson. Together they are coeditors of The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature and American Buddhism as a Way of Life, both also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Jan Willis
Introduction
John Whalen-Bridge & Gary Storhoff
PART I. Widening the Stream: Literature as Transmission
1. The Transmission of Zen as Dual Discourse: Shaku Soen and Okakura Kakuzo
Jane Falk
2. Black American Buddhism: History and Representation
Linda Furgerson Selzer
PART II. The New Lamp: Buddhism and Contemporary Writers
3. Some of the Dharma: The Human, the Heavenly, and the "Real Work" in the Writings of Gary Snyder
Allan Johnston
4. "Listen and Relate": Buddhism, Daoism, and Chance in the Poetry and Poetics of Jackson Mac Low
Jonathan Stalling
5. A Deeper Kind of Truth: Buddhist Themes in Don DeLillo's Libra
Gary Storhoff
PART III. Speaking as Enlightenment: Interviews with Buddhist Writers
6. "The Present Moment Happening": A Conversation with Gary Snyder about Danger on Peaks
Julia Martin
7. Embodied Mindfulness: Charles Johnson and Maxine Hong Kingston on Buddhism, Race, and Beauty
John Whalen-Bridge
8. Poetry and Practice at Naropa University
John Whalen-Bridge
List of Contributors
Index
Foreword
Jan Willis
Introduction
John Whalen-Bridge & Gary Storhoff
PART I. Widening the Stream: Literature as Transmission
1. The Transmission of Zen as Dual Discourse: Shaku Soen and Okakura Kakuzo
Jane Falk
2. Black American Buddhism: History and Representation
Linda Furgerson Selzer
PART II. The New Lamp: Buddhism and Contemporary Writers
3. Some of the Dharma: The Human, the Heavenly, and the "Real Work" in the Writings of Gary Snyder
Allan Johnston
4. "Listen and Relate": Buddhism, Daoism, and Chance in the Poetry and Poetics of Jackson Mac Low
Jonathan Stalling
5. A Deeper Kind of Truth: Buddhist Themes in Don DeLillo's Libra
Gary Storhoff
PART III. Speaking as Enlightenment: Interviews with Buddhist Writers
6. "The Present Moment Happening": A Conversation with Gary Snyder about Danger on Peaks
Julia Martin
7. Embodied Mindfulness: Charles Johnson and Maxine Hong Kingston on Buddhism, Race, and Beauty
John Whalen-Bridge
8. Poetry and Practice at Naropa University
John Whalen-Bridge
List of Contributors
Index
