Normand, Lawrence and Winch, Alison, eds. 2013. Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781441184764 [Edited Book]

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Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature explores the ways in which 20th-century literature has been influenced by Buddhism, and has been, in turn, a major factor in bringing about Buddhism's increasing spread and influence in the West. Focussing on Britain and the United States, Buddhism's influence on a range of key literary texts will be examined in the context of those societies' evolving modernity. Writers discussed include T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, Iris Murdoch, Maxine Hong Kingston. This book brings together for the first time a series of context-rich interpretations that demonstrate the importance of literature in this ongoing cultural change in Britain and the United States.

Item Type:	Edited Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Date:	24 October 2013
Item ID:	34848
Date Deposited:	14 Feb 2024 16:04
Last Modified:	14 Feb 2024 16:08
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34848

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