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Contributor DetailsIntroduction1. Reincarnation and Selfhood in Olive Schreiner's 'The Buddhist Priest's Wife' and Undine Erin Louttit2. Shangri-La and Buddhism in James Hilton's Lost Horizon and W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's The Ascent of F6 Lawrence Normand3. [A] 'ears of my ears': e. e. cummings' Buddhist prosody Erin Lafford and Emma Mason4. Zen Buddhism as Radical Conviviality in the Works of Henry Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, and Thomas Merton Manuel Yang5. Radical Occidentalism: The Zen Anarchism of Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen James Patrick Brown6. Buddhism, Madness and Movement: Triangulating Jack Kerouac's Belief System Bent Sorensen7. Biology, the Buddha and the Beasts: The Influence of Ernst Haeckel and Arthur Schopenhauer on Samuel Beckett's How It Is Andy Wimbush8. 'That Other Ocean': Buddhism, Vedanta, and The Perennial Philosophy in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man. Bidhan Roy9. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior as Mahayana Meditation Sarah Gardam10. The Aesthetics of Compassion in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea Elena Spandri11. Strange Entanglements: Buddhism and Quantum Theory in Contemporary Nonfiction Sean MillerBibliography.
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Encountering Buddhism in twentieth-century British and American literature. ISBN 9781441184764. Published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
