The neo-Buddhist writings of Lafcadio Hearn: light from the East
A metaphysics of Buddhism and its history in the West -- Biographical and critical studies of Hearn -- Buddhism in the American writings and 'seeking the Orient at home' -- Japan and the 'romance of reality' -- Conclusion.
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2020]
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East and West (volume 7)
Jahr: 2020 |
| Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | East and West
volume 7 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Hearn, Lafcadio 1850-1904
/ Knowledge (Zeitschrift, London)
/ Neubuddhismus
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| RelBib Classification: | AZ Neue Religionen BL Buddhismus KBF Britische Inseln |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)
Knowledge
Buddhism
B Buddhism in literature B Hochschulschrift B Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904) Criticism and interpretation History |
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| Zusammenfassung: | A metaphysics of Buddhism and its history in the West -- Biographical and critical studies of Hearn -- Buddhism in the American writings and 'seeking the Orient at home' -- Japan and the 'romance of reality' -- Conclusion. "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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004430326 |