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ISBN-10: 1438439202
ISBN-13: 9781438439204
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publish Date: 08/01/2011
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.40" H

Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature Into the Twenty-First Century

Editor: Gary Storhoff
Foreword by: Jan Willis

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Price: $34.95

Overview

John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. His books include Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest. Gary Storhoff is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. He is the author of Understanding Charles Johnson. Together they are coeditors of The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature and American Buddhism as a Way of Life, both also published by SUNY Press.

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"...every contribution invites us to dig deeper, to go back to the original writings and discover the interplay of Buddhism and American culture for ourselves." – Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception

"Whalen-Bridge and Storhoff ... contend that Buddhism has been transmitted effectively through US literature and become 'an important cultural dimension of America.' The editors and their contributors are convincing in advancing this view ... Highly recommended." – CHOICE

"Writing as Enlightenment ... will be most useful to ... college and university students and teachers who are working to define and shape the emerging field of Buddhist literary criticism." – Buddhadharma

"Literature has long been a vital part of the Buddhist search for wisdom, a fact that is particularly true of American Buddhism. Writing as Enlightenment is an engaging and wide-ranging study that expands our understanding of Buddhist American literature." – David Landis Barnhill, translator of Bashō's Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Bashō
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ISBN-10: 1438439202
ISBN-13: 9781438439204
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publish Date: 08/01/2011
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 0.40" H
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