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| Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick | ||
| 作者 | Herman, Daniel (著) |
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| 卷期 | Summer |
| 出版日期 | 2014.05 |
| 頁次 | 219 |
| 出版者 | Lehigh University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://lupress.lehigh.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States [伯利恆, 賓夕法尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Copublished with Rowman & Littlefield. |
| 摘要 | In Moby-Dick’s wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Daniel Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have read or that there is a strong likelihood of his having come across, as well as offering a more expansive consideration of Moby-Dick from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern teachings. But not only does the book delve deeply into one of the few aspects of Moby-Dick’s construction left unexplored by scholars, it also conceives of an entirely new way of reading the greatest of American books—offering critical re-considerations of many of its most crucial and contentious issues, while focusing on what Melville has to teach us about coping with adversity, respecting ideological diversity, and living skillfully in a fickle, slippery world. |
| 目次 | Introduction ix Part 1: Melville’s Encounters with Buddhism 1. The Prologue to Buddhist Studies 3 2. A Universal Absorber 7 3. Bayle’s Dictionary 19 4. Possibilities and Probabilities 25 5. Mardi and Other Mysteries 33 Part 2: Ishmael’s Way-Seeking Mind 6. Groundlessness 39 7. Narcissus and Dongshan 47 8. Searching for Ishmael 51 9. Whaling Life, Monastic Life 57 10. Ishmael’s Meditation 67 11. Impermanence and Interdependence 79 12. Philosophy, Koans, and Silence 85 Part 3: Moby Dick’s Inscrutable Selflessness 13. Sarcastic Science 97 14. The First Principle of All Things 103 15. Whiteness 107 16. The Measurements of the Whale Skeleton 113 17. Ox-Herding 117 Part 4: Captain Ahab’s Universe 18. A Factionalized Consciousness 125 19. Savagery Beyond Savagery 135 20. Faith and the Three Mates 139 21. The Doubloon 145 22. Pip, Who Jumped from a Whale-Boat 149 23. Ahab’s Awakening 155 24. Pacific 165 Conclusion 171 Acknowledgements 175 Notes 177 Bibliography 205 Index 211 About the Author 215 |
| ISBN | 9781611461565 (hbc); 1611461561 (hbc); 9781611461572 (eBook) |
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| 建檔日期 | 2024.12.19 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.12.19 |
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