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The neo-buddhist writings of Lafcadio Hearn : light from the East
- Title
- The neo-buddhist writings of Lafcadio Hearn : light from the East / by Antony Goedhals.
- Author
- Goedhals, Antony
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 248 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- East and West : culture, diplomacy and interactions, 2467-9704 ; volume 7
- Uniform Title
- East and West (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 7.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Literary criticism.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-3249
- ISBN
- 9789004430327
- 9004430326
- LCCN
- 2020008664
- OCLC
- 1139922383
- Author
- Goedhals, Antony, author.
- Title
- The neo-buddhist writings of Lafcadio Hearn : light from the East / by Antony Goedhals.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- East and West : culture, diplomacy and interactions, 2467-9704 ; volume 7East and West (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 7.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Goedhals, Antony. The neo-buddhist writings of Lafcadio Hearn Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004430334 (DLC) 2020008665
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-3249