The Orient Express: The Fiction That Brought the East to the West by Rosenthal, Randy

The Orient Express: The Fiction That Brought the East to the West (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781666775280)

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The Orient Express: The Fiction That Brought the East to the West by Rosenthal, Randy

The Orient Express: The Fiction That Brought the East to the West

$35.00
The Orient Express: The Fiction That Brought the East to the West by Rosenthal, Randy

The Orient Express: The Fiction That Brought the East to the West

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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When yoga studios are ubiquitous and meditation apps are on millions of smart phones, once exotic terms like karma, zen, and nirvana have entered into everyday English, business consultants have appropriated the meditation terms "mindfulness" and "equanimity," and Buddha statues and Shinto shrines are common in American yards, we forget that things weren't always this way, and that what is now considered cliche was once unknown. So how did the spirituality of the East come to permeate the culture of the West? Answering that question is what The Orient Express is about. To do so, Harvard scholar Randy Rosenthal explores the four works of fiction he finds most responsible for bringing Eastern religion to the Western mainstream: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger, and The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. Through the lives of their characters, these authors introduced countless readers to the spiritual practices and philosophies of yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and the hesychast prayer tradition of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. A compendium of spiritual wisdom in the form of literary criticism, The Orient Express tells the story of these stories, providing illuminating context and clarifying misconceptions along the way.

Author: Randy Rosenthal
ISBN-10: 1666775282
ISBN-13: 9781666775280
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2024
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
By Randy Rosenthal
By Randy Rosenthal
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Randy Rosenthal is the author of the novels Dear Burma and The Messiah of Shangri-La. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Globe, The Jerusalem Post, The American Scholar, Lion's Roar, Buddhadharma, Tricycle, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and several other publications. He teaches writing courses for Harvard University and lives in Boston.

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