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The Face of the Buddha

Af: William Empson Engelsk Hardback

The Face of the Buddha

Af: William Empson Engelsk Hardback
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Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that followed in search of similar examples all over Korea, China, Cambodia, Burma, India, and Ceylon, as well as in the great museums of the West. Compiling the results of these wide-ranging travels into what he considered to be one of his most important works, Empson was heartbroken when he mislaid the sole copy of the manuscript in the wake of the Second World War. ''The Face of the Buddha'' remained one of the great lost books until its surprise rediscovery sixty years later, and is published here for the first time. The book provides an engaging record of Empson''s reactions to the cultures and artworks he encountered during his travels, and presents experimental theories about Buddhist art that many authorities of today have found to be remarkably prescient. It also casts important new light on Empson''s other works, highlighting in particular the affinities of his thinking with that of the religious and philosophical traditions of Asia.Edited by the global culture historian Rupert Arrowsmith, this edition comes with a comprehensive introduction that makes ''The Face of the Buddha'' as accessible to the general reader as it is to the professional scholar, and is fully illustrated throughout with Empson''s original photographs.
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Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that followed in search of similar examples all over Korea, China, Cambodia, Burma, India, and Ceylon, as well as in the great museums of the West. Compiling the results of these wide-ranging travels into what he considered to be one of his most important works, Empson was heartbroken when he mislaid the sole copy of the manuscript in the wake of the Second World War. ''The Face of the Buddha'' remained one of the great lost books until its surprise rediscovery sixty years later, and is published here for the first time. The book provides an engaging record of Empson''s reactions to the cultures and artworks he encountered during his travels, and presents experimental theories about Buddhist art that many authorities of today have found to be remarkably prescient. It also casts important new light on Empson''s other works, highlighting in particular the affinities of his thinking with that of the religious and philosophical traditions of Asia.Edited by the global culture historian Rupert Arrowsmith, this edition comes with a comprehensive introduction that makes ''The Face of the Buddha'' as accessible to the general reader as it is to the professional scholar, and is fully illustrated throughout with Empson''s original photographs.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780199659678
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0199659672
Kategori: Litteraturstudier: fra 1900 til 2000
Udg. Dato: 9 jun 2016
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 253mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 9 jun 2016
Forfatter(e): William Empson
Forfatter(e) William Empson

Kategori Litteraturstudier: fra 1900 til 2000

ISBN-13 9780199659678

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 253mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 9 jun 2016

Oplagsdato 9 jun 2016

Forlag Oxford University Press