Enlightened individualism : Buddhism and Hinduism in American literature from the Beats to the present
Kyle Garton-Gundling
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
| Omfang | viii, 217 sider
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| Opplysninger | Beat Buddhism and American freedom: Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and Tom Robbins -- Anti-Beat reactions and mainstream mysticism: J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey and Robert Pirsig's Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance -- Secret rituals and American autonomy: Thomas Pynchon's Vineland and Don Delillo's Underworld -- Asian religions and African dreams: Alice Walker and Charles Johnson -- Buddhist nonself and Asian American identity: lan Cao's Monkey bridge and Maxine Hong Kingston's The fifth book of peace.. - "Exploration of how post-1945 American writers, including Jack Kerouac, Alice Walker, and Maxine Hong Kingston, have tried to reconcile US goal-oriented individualism with Buddhist and Hindu transcendent teachings"--
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| Emner | American literature - History and criticism.
Beats (Persons) in literature. Buddhism in literature. Hinduism in literature. Vis mer... Literature and transnationalism.
amerikansk litteratur hinduisme buddhisme beat-litteraturen samtidslitteratur 1900-tallet litteraturkritikk |
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| ISBN | 0814213928. - 9780814213926. - 9780814255247
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