Identities of transmission of Buddhism in to the west: Modernist Literature
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)
30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972 Ezra Pound
Thomas Stearns Eliot Four quarters September 1888 – 4 January 1965)
Joseph Conrad 1895–1923
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899)
George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda (1876)
Phra the Phoenician (1890)
Kim (1901). Kipling’s
Wells’ highly popular Short History of the World (1922)
cummings’ poetry
A Single Man (novel) 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood.
The Sea (1978) Christopher Isherwood.
1.Investigates the above writers and mention texts and the period from 1900 onward.
2.Analyze whether there is a transformation of the Buddhist identity across time.
3.What type of Buddhist concepts are discussed and with time whether there has been a change of interpreting or choosing these concepts.
4.What Buddhism is commonly used in these works?Explain.
5.Discuss how the social background has influenced to portray such Buddhist identity.
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