Jeff Humphries

Reading Emptiness

Buddhism and Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Concludes that the closest thing in Western culture to the Middle Way of Buddhism is not any sort of theory or philosophy, but the practice of literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 191
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780791442623
• ISBN-10: 0791442624
• Artikelnr.: 21894357

Autorenporträt

Jeff Humphries is LSU Foundation Professor of Comparative Literature, French, and English, and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Louisiana State University. His many books include The Otherness Within: Gnostic Readings in Marcel Proust, Flannery O'Connor and Francois Villon; and Losing the Text: Readings in Literary Desire.