| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
East and West : culture, diplomacy and interactions, 2467-9704 ; volume 7 |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2020) |
| Subject |
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History
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Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 -- Knowledge -- Buddhism
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| SUBJECT |
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 fast |
| Subject |
Buddhism in literature.
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Buddhism
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Buddhism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020008665 |
| ISBN |
9004430334 |
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9789004430334 |
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