Identities of transmission of Buddhism in to the west: Modernist Literature
This is a comparative analysis of the modernist literature period.
However, readings are oriented around the social, political, historical, or biographical context of the following writers. Non-literary material will be used to explore the actual Buddhist influence in the west.
(Include a better methodology other than the above vague ideas/or elaborate on the these)
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)
30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972 Ezra Pound
Thomas Stearns Eliot Four quarters September 1888 – 4 January 1965)
Joseph Conrad 1895–1923
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899)
George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda (1876)
Phra the Phoenician (1890)
Kim (1901). Kipling’s
Wells’ highly popular Short History of the World (1922)
cummings’ poetry
A Single Man (novel) 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood.
The Sea (1978) Christopher Isherwood.
1.The research investigates the above writers and the mentioned texts and, the period from 1900 onwards. will take each writer and analyse the representation of Buddhism in their work.
2.The study will also look at whether there is a transformation of the Buddhist identity across time.
3.What type of Buddhist concepts are discussed (e.g. karma, nirvana, samsara) and with time whether there has been a change of interpreting or choosing these concepts.
4. What for of Buddhism is commonly used in these works. (zen/Mahayana/Theravada)
4. Whether or how the social background has influenced to portray such Buddhist identity.
5. How the writer education or Buddhist background if there’s such has influenced the writing.
6. Whether or how the identity of Buddhism has been changing in these literary works over the period of given time.
Existing literature shows no such transformation of Buddhist identity over time, merely represents the Buddhist aspects in western literature with a background analysis of each writer in most of them.
Find literature from the attached or feel free to find your own literature. However, fully analyze at 3 contemporary literature.
Give reference, Use MLA format. When you give minimize referencing webpages/ebooks and articles, instead give the original book citation
Arnold, E. L. [1890] 1913. The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician, with an Introduction
by Sir E. Arnold. London: Chatto & Windus.
Bauld, B. ‘Conrad’s Heart of Darkness’. In Explicator (Spring 1992). Printed online (site accessed
11th April 2014). Available online: http://www.mrbauld.com/exconrbud.html
Joseph C. Heart of Darkness. [1899] 1989. Ed. R. Kimbrough, Norton Critical Editions, 3rd ed.
New York: Norton.
Eliot, G. Daniel Deronda. [1876] 1999. Ed.ited by Graham Handley. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Kipling, R. [1893] 1907. Many Inventions. Macmillan Pocket Series. London: Macmillan and
Co.
———. [1901] 1908. Kim. Macmillan Pocket Series. London: Macmillan and Co.
Prickett, S. 1979. Victorian Fantasy. Hassocks, Sussex: The Harvester Press Limited.
Yoe, S. (J. G. Scott). [1882] 1910. The Burman: his Life and Notions. 3rd edition. London:
Macmillan and Co
