Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-century British and American Literature (Paperback)

Contributor Details Introduction 1. Reincarnation and Selfhood in Olive Schreiner's The Buddhist Priest's Wife and Undine Erin Louttit 2. Shangri-La and Buddhism in James Hilton's Lost Horizon and W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's The Ascent of F6 Lawrence Normand 3. [A] 'ears of my ears': e. e. cummings' Buddhist prosody Erin Lafford and Emma Mason 4. Zen Buddhism as Radical Conviviality in the Works of Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, and Thomas Merton Manuel Yang 5. Radical Occidentalism: The Zen Anarchism of Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen James Patrick Brown 6. Buddhism, Madness and Movement: Triangulating Jack Kerouac's Belief System Bent Sørensen 7. Biology, the Buddha and the Beasts: The Influence of Ernst Haeckel and Arthur Schopenhauer on Samuel Beckett's How It Is Andy Wimbush 8. 'That Other Ocean': Buddhism, Vedanta, and The Perennial Philosophy in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man Bidhan Roy 9. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior as Mahayana Meditation Sarah Gardam 10. The Aesthetics of Compassion in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea Elena Spandri 11. Strange Entanglements: Buddhism and Quantum Theory in Contemporary Nonfiction Sean Miller Bibliography