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18 produkter
Norman Mailer's Later Fictions
Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest
Av J. Whalen-Bridge, John Whalen-Bridge
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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Norman Mailer s Later Fiction considers five works - Ancient Evenings (1983), Tough Guys Don t Dance (1984), Harlot's Ghost (1991), The Gospel According to the Son (1997), The Castle in the Forest (2007) - to examine, for the first time in a full volume, Mailer s literary maturity. Essays from …
Political Fiction and the American Self
Häftad, 1998
351 kr
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Examining political novels that have achieved (or been denied) canonicalstatus, John Whalen-Bridge demonstrates how Herman Melville, Jack London,Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood havegrappled with the problem of balancing radicalism and art. He shows thatsome books …
Tibet on Fire
Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation
E-bok, 2015
779 kr
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Using Kenneth Burke''s concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015. The volume asserts that the self-immolation act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity in the face of cultural …
Tibet on Fire
Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation
Inbunden, 2015
551 kr
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Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015. The volume asserts that the self-immolation act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity in the face of cultural …
Emergence of Buddhist American Literature
Av John Whalen-Bridge, Gary Storhoff
Häftad, 2010
532 kr
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Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.The encounter between Buddhism and American literature has been a powerful one for both parties. While Buddhism fueled the Beat movement's resounding critique of the United …
American Buddhism as a Way of Life
Av Gary Storhoff, John Whalen-Bridge
Häftad, 2010
449 kr
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Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.The US seems to be becoming a Buddhist country. Celebrity converts, the popularity of the Dalai Lama, motifs in popular movies, and mala beads at the mall indicate an increasing inculcation of Buddhism into the American …
Writing as Enlightenment
Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century
Av John Whalen-Bridge, Gary Storhoff
Häftad, 2011
418 kr
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Explores the prevalence of Buddhist ideas in American literature since the 1970s.This timely book explores how Buddhist-inflected thought has enriched contemporary American literature. Continuing the work begun in The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature, editors John Whalen-Bridge and Gary …
Religious Journeys in India
Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers
Av Andrea Marion Pinkney, John Whalen-Bridge
Häftad, 2019
648 kr
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Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic …
Religious Journeys in India
Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers
Av Andrea Marion Pinkney, John Whalen-Bridge
Inbunden, 2018
1111 kr
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Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic …
Religious Journeys in India
Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers
Av Andrea Marion Pinkney, John Whalen-Bridge
Inbunden, 2025
1601 kr
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In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has become the site of evolving and often paradoxical forms of …
Democracy as Culture
Deweyan Pragmatism in a Globalizing World
Av Sor-hoon Tan, John Whalen-Bridge
Inbunden, 2008
1111 kr
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Explores the significance of Dewey's thought on democracy for the contemporary world.Using a multidisciplinary approach, contributors to this volume explore the significance of John Dewey's Pragmatism for the contemporary world. They examine such issues as whether Classical Pragmatism justifies …
Democracy as Culture
Deweyan Pragmatism in a Globalizing World
Av Sor-hoon Tan, John Whalen-Bridge
Häftad, 2009
401 kr
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Explores the significance of Dewey's thought on democracy for the contemporary world.Using a multidisciplinary approach, contributors to this volume explore the significance of John Dewey's Pragmatism for the contemporary world. They examine such issues as whether Classical Pragmatism justifies …
Emergence of Buddhist American Literature
Av John Whalen-Bridge, Gary Storhoff
Inbunden, 2009
1250 kr
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Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.The encounter between Buddhism and American literature has been a powerful one for both parties. While Buddhism fueled the Beat movement's resounding critique of the United …
American Buddhism as a Way of Life
Av Gary Storhoff, John Whalen-Bridge
Inbunden, 2010
1111 kr
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Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.The US seems to be becoming a Buddhist country. Celebrity converts, the popularity of the Dalai Lama, motifs in popular movies, and mala beads at the mall indicate an increasing inculcation of Buddhism into the American …
Writing as Enlightenment
Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century
Av John Whalen-Bridge, Gary Storhoff
Inbunden, 2011
1278 kr
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Explores the prevalence of Buddhist ideas in American literature since the 1970s.This timely book explores how Buddhist-inflected thought has enriched contemporary American literature. Continuing the work begun in The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature, editors John Whalen-Bridge and Gary …
Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge
Asian Traditions in a Transnational World
Av D. S. Farrer, John Whalen-Bridge
Häftad, 2012
405 kr
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A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.This landmark work provides a wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the traditional Asian martial arts. Most of the contributors to the volume are practitioners of the martial arts, and all are keenly aware that these traditions now exist …
Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge
Asian Traditions in a Transnational World
Av D. S. Farrer, John Whalen-Bridge
Inbunden, 2011
1144 kr
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A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.This landmark work provides a wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the traditional Asian martial arts. Most of the contributors to the volume are practitioners of the martial arts, and all are keenly aware that these traditions now exist …
Buddhism and American Cinema
Av John Whalen-Bridge, Gary Storhoff
Inbunden, 2014
1111 kr
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Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films.In 1989, the same year the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a decade-long boom of films dedicated to Buddhist people, history, and culture began. Offering the first scholarly treatment of Buddhism …
