The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn - Light from the East (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	East and West, 7
Release date:	May 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Antony Goedhals
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-43032-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > General Promotions
LSN:	90-04-43032-6
Barcode:	9789004430327

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