Daniel Herman

Zen and the White Whale

A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick

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Produktbeschreibung

Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dickexamines how Herman Melville's Moby-Dick may have been influenced by contemporaneous sources of information about Buddhist thought and considers the book from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern teachings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9781611461565
• ISBN-10: 1611461561
• Artikelnr.: 40456266

Autorenporträt

Daniel Herman teaches American literature at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Melville's Encounters with Buddhism 1.
The Prologue to Buddhist Studies 2. A Universal Absorber 3. Bayle's
Dictionary 4. Possibilities and Probabilities 5. Mardi and Other Mysteries
Part 2: Ishmael's Way-Seeking Mind 6. Groundlessness 7. Narcissus and
Dongshan 8. Searching for Ishmael 9. Whaling Life, Monastic Life 10.
Ishmael's Meditation 11. Impermanence and Interdependence 12. Philosophy,
Koans, and Silence Part 3: Moby Dick's Inscrutable Selflessness 13.
Sarcastic Science 14. The First Principle of All Things 15. Whiteness 16.
The Measurements of the Whale Skeleton 17. Ox-Herding Part 4: Captain
Ahab's Universe 18. A Factionalized Consciousness 19. Savagery Beyond
Savagery 20. Faith and the Three Mates 21. The Doubloon 22. Pip, Who Jumped
from a Whale-Boat 23. Ahab's Awakening 24. Pacific Conclusion Bibliography
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