The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

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The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn is written by Antony Goedhals and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004430334 (ISBN 10) and 9789004430334 (ISBN 13).

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.