The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature (eBook)

Finding Nirvana in the Classics

Dean Sluyter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
320 Seiten
New World Library (Verlag)
978-1-60868-770-1 (ISBN)

Infos

HOW THE LITERATURE WE LOVE CONVEYS THE AWAKENING WE SEEK Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku . . . learn mindfulness from Virginia Woolf and liberation from Frederick Douglass . . . see Dickinson and Whitman as buddhas of poetry, and Huck Finn and Gatsby as seekers of the infinite . . . discover enlightenment teachings in Macbeth, The Catcher in the Rye, Moby-Dick, and The Bluest Eye. Some of us were lucky enough to have one passionate, funny, inspiring English teacher who helped us fall in love with books. Add a lifetime of teaching Dharma authentic, traditional approaches to meditation and awakening and you get award-winning author Dean Sluyter. With droll humor and irreverent wisdom, he unpacks the Dharma of more than twenty major writers, from William Blake to Dr. Seuss, inspiring readers to deepen their own spiritual life and see literature in a fresh, new way: as a path of awakening.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.3.2022
• Zusatzinfo: black and white
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: American Literature • Beat generation • Beat Movement • Beats • Buddhism • Buddhist Ethics • Classic Literature • Comparative Literature • English literature • Enlightenment • Fitzgerald • Great American Novel • Hinduism • insight meditation • Jack Kerouac • Keats • Literary Canon • Literary criticism • narrative • Plot Device • Salinger • Shakespeare • story arc • Transcendentalism • Twain • Vedanta
• ISBN-10: 1-60868-770-8 / 1608687708
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60868-770-1 / 9781608687701