2019-2020 Academic Catalog 
    
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2019-2020 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 1680 - Eastern Thought/Western Literature


Examines the influence of Eastern philosophic and religious traditions on Western literature of the twentieth century. We look at the basic ideas and tenets of Vedanta, Buddhism, Taoism and Zen, as well as the poetics of haiku, and then look to how those premises affected both the poetry and fiction of modern literature in Europe, England, and America. Authors discussed may include Huxley, Hesse, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Pirsig, and Ginsberg.