This collection of eleven essays concerns the movement of modernity in East-West literary criicism. Most of the contributions address particular cross-cultural relationships such as W.B. Yeat's interest in the 'noh' play, Ezra Pound's imagism, and the influence of Zen aesthetics on Western poetry. The Western writers discussed range from Americans, including Emerson, Thoreau, Faulkner, Wright, and Snyder, to Europeans, such as Marcel Proust. The Eastern writers include Basho, Tanizaki, Lao Tzu, Wan Wei, Tagore, and Yone Noguchi.
- ISBN10 058543915X
- ISBN13 9780585439150
- Publish Date December 2001 (first published 1 October 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lehigh University Press
- Format eBook
- Language English