The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East

By Antony Goedhals

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004430326
• ISBN13: 9789004430327
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"