| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: Transcendentalists; 1. Henry David Thoreau and Confucian Ethics; 2. The Poetics of Subjectivity: Emerson, Zen, and Lacan; 3. Emerson, Whitman, and Zen Aesthetics; Part Two: Modernists; 4. W.B. Yeats's Poetics in the Noh Play; 5. Yone Noguchi, Ezra Pound, and Imagism; 6. Albert Camus's The Stranger and Richard Wright's The Outsider; 7. Richard Wright's Haiku and Modernist Poetics; 8. Jack Kerouac's Haiku, Beat Poetics, and On the Road; Part Three: African American Writers |
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9. The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man10. Pagan Spain: Richard Wright's Discourse on Religion, Politics, and Culture; 11. Private Voice and Buddhist Enlightenment in Alice Walker's The Color Purple; 12. Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, and African Culture; 13. African American Haiku: Richard Wright, Sonia Sanchez, and James Emanuel; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-309) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 25, 2017) |
| Subject |
Comparative literature -- Western and Oriental.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Asian influences
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American literature -- Western influences
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Comparative literature -- Western and Oriental
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826273949 |
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0826273947 |
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