Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: East and West
Light from the East
Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: East and West
ISBN: 978-90-04-43032-7
Verlag: Brill
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Text and Conventions Adopted
1 A Metaphysics of Buddhism and Its History in the West
Introduction
Core Issues Outlined: the Letters of George Milbry Gould and Basil Hall Chamberlain
Dr George Milbry Gould
Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain
Hearn’s Reception in the West
The Existing Scholarship on Hearn’s Buddhism
The Advent of Buddhism to the West
The European Discovery of Buddhism in ‘British’ India
Buddhism a Radical Metaphysic
Buddhism a Construct, a Story
Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia (1879)
Conclusion
2 Biographical and Critical Studies of Hearn
Introduction
The ad hominem Nature of Biographical and Critical – ‘Bio-critical’ – Works on Hearn
The Bio-critical Memes of Hearn Studies
Biographies and Bio-critical Works on Hearn
Elizabeth Bisland’s Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
George Milbry Gould’s Concerning Lafcadio Hearn (1908)
Hearn’s Work Denigrated by Attacking the Man
Hearn’s Ancestry and Vision Attacked
Hearn’s going ‘Fantee’ and his Abandonment of a Loving Father-God
George M. Gould Collection of Hearniana: a Testimony to Obsession and Fearfulness
The History of Gould’s Encounter with Hearn and Gould’s Deprecation of Hearn on Grounds of Defective Vision
Hearn is ‘the Poet of Myopia’
Gould’s Fatherly Theism
God as ‘Biologos’ Creating out of Dead Matter the Garden of the World
‘Karma’: a Tale Told for its Teller
Post-Gould, pre-World War I Critical Biographies of Hearn
Joseph De Smet’s Lafcadio Hearn: l’Homme et l’œuvre (1911) and Edward Thomas’s Lafcadio Hearn (1912)
Nina Kennard’s Lafcadio Hearn (1912)
Yone Noguchi’s Lafcadio Hearn in Japan (1910)
Setsuko Koizumi’s Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn (1918), Kazuo Koizumi’s Father and I: Memories of Lafcadio Hearn (1935), and Re-Echo (1957)
Critical Biographies of Hearn Written between the Two World Wars
Edward Larocque Tinker’s Lafcadio Hearn’s American Days (1924)
Jean Temple’s Blue Ghost: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (1931) and Oscar Lewis’s Hearn and His Biographers: The Record of a Literary Controversy (1930)
Hearn – An Interpreter of Buddhism
Kenneth Kirkwood’s Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn (1936)
Critical Biographies of Hearn Written after World War II
Vera McWilliams’s Lafcadio Hearn (1946)
Orcutt William Frost’s Young Hearn (1958)
Elizabeth Stevenson’s The Grass Lark: A Study of Lafcadio Hearn (1961)
The Dorothea McClelland Papers
Critical Biographies of Hearn in the 1960s and 1970s
Albert Mordell’s Discoveries: Essays on Lafcadio Hearn (1964)
Beongcheon Yu’s An Ape of Gods: The Art and Thought of Lafcadio Hearn (1964), Arthur Kunst’s Lafcadio Hearn (1969), and Kenneth Rexroth’s The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (1977)
Contemporary Biographies of Hearn
Paul Murray’s Fantastic Journey: The Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn (1993)
Jonathan Cott’s Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn (1991)
Robert Rosenstone’s Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan (1988)
Conclusion
3 Buddhism in the American Writings and ‘Seeking the Orient at Home’
Introduction
Hearn’s First Encounters with Buddhism
Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia
Atheism and Individual Responsibility in The Light of Asia
Causation, Karma, Reincarnation, and the Interrelation of all Phenomena in The Light of Asia
Buddhism a Revisioning of ‘the Self’
Buddhism a Revisioning of the Problem of Death
Hearn’s Buddhism Ontological, not Moralistic
Articles about Buddhism
The Times-Democrat a ‘Buddhist Newspaper’, an ‘Infidel sheet’
‘The People We Send Missionaries To’
‘The World’s Worships’
‘What Buddhism Is’
‘Recent Buddhist Literature’
Articles about the Hindu-Buddhist Matrix and Other ‘Oriental’ Subjects
‘Edwin Arnold’s New Book’
The ‘Neo-Buddhism of the Theosophists’
Herbert Spencer’s ‘Synthetic Philosophy’ and Buddhism
Hearn’s Translations of Buddhist Stories and His Neo-Buddhist Fictions
Stray Leaves From Strange Literature
‘The Legend of the Monster Misfortune’
‘A Parable Buddhistic’
‘Pundari’
‘Yamaraja’
‘The Lotus of Faith’
Hearn’s ‘fantastics’ and Ghost Stories: Meditations on Love and Death
Background to the ‘fantastics’
‘When I was a Flower’
‘A Dead Love’
‘His Heart is Old’
‘Hereditary Memories’
‘Metempsychosis’
‘The Undying One’
‘The Story of Ming-Y’
Hearn’s Cosmic ‘fantastics’
‘Subhadra’
‘The Life of Stars’ and ‘The Destiny of Solar Systems’
‘The great “I-Am”’ and ‘A Concord Compromise’
Conclusion
4 Japan and the ‘Romance of Reality’
Introduction
‘Popular’ or ‘Lower’ Buddhism
‘From the Diary of an English Teacher’
‘The Writings of Kobodaishi’ and ‘Jizo’
‘A Pilgrimage to Enoshima’
‘At the Market of the Dead’, ‘By the Japanese Sea’, and ‘From Hoki to Oki’
Shinto
‘Bon-Odori’ and ‘The Household Shrine’
Individual Observations of Reality: Hearn’s Buddhist Meditations
‘My First Day in the Orient’
The ‘Shock of Emptiness’
‘From a Traveling Diary’
‘In the Twilight of the Gods’
Three Central Essay-Meditations
The ancestors, karma
‘The Idea of Preëxistence’
‘Some Thoughts About Ancestor-Worship’
‘Nirvana: A Study in Synthetic Buddhism’
Three Central Story-Meditations
‘Dust’
‘The Stone Buddha’
‘In Yokohama’: closing the cycle of the ‘Buddhist papers’
The Buddhist Writings of the Last Years
‘Insect-Studies’
‘Story of a Fly’, ‘Fireflies’, ‘Gaki’, ‘Kusa-Hibari’, and ‘Mosquitoes’
Stories with Buddhist Settings
‘Within the Circle’
‘The Story of a Tengu’
‘A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu’
‘Fragment’ and the Fenollosas
Ernest Fenollosa’s Attack on Hearn in The Atlantic Monthly
Oneness
‘A Drop of Dew’
‘Of Moon-Desire’
The Paradise of Possible Worlds
Time-Travel and Ghost Stories
‘The Reconciliation’
‘The Story of Ito Norisuké’
Conclusion
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Hearn’s Writings
Secondary Texts
Index
