"Buddhist Scriptures as Literature explores the drama, lyricism, and compelling storylines in Buddhist sacred writings, while illustrating how rhetoric and ideology are at work in shaping readers' reactions. Ralph Flores argues that the Buddha's life story itself follows an arch…
"Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked"--. "The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read th…
"Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literaturehas been significantly overlooked"--
"Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked"-- "The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read the…
"Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked"--
"This book examines the historical problem of allegory and why certain texts lent themselves to allegorical interpretation; the political, economic, and religious developments of the Kamakura period that encouraged the development of this method of interpretation; and the possib…
"This book examines the historical problem of allegory and why certain texts lent themselves to allegorical interpretation; the political, economic, and religious developments of the Kamakura period that encouraged the development of this method of interpretation; and the possib…