I sure would like to get my hands on a copy of this. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/ER/detail/hkul/2679785
"The aesthetics of indeterminacy: a meeting ground between eastern mysticism and postmodernism and selected novels by tom robbins, richard brautigan, and robert pirsig" by Doo-Ho Shin Indeterminacy has become a dominant concern in postmodern literature and literary criticism as well as in other postmodern cultures and the research done these areas demonstrates an abiding interest in indeterminacy. However, little effort has been made in establishing a meeting ground between Eastern mystical traditions and Western postmodernist thought. And even less research has been done on the postmodern writers who pave a new way of understanding postmodern Western culture by establishing dialogue between the traditions of the East and literary postmodernism of the West.This dissertation explores a meeting ground between Eastern mystical traditions and postmodern Western culture, attempts to account for it theoretically, and discusses how such dialogue works in selected novels by postmodernist writers, who not only employ postmodern indeterminacy but also incorporate Eastern mystical ideas in their works: Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, and Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. A general discussion of my method covers the historical and current debates concerning the issue of determinacy and indeterminacy in the areas of the new physics, deep ecology, deconstruction language theory, and philosophy in each chapter, in relation not only to literature and literary criticism, but also to Eastern mysticism.Eastern mystical traditions share striking similarities with postmodern thinking about indeterminacy in these areas. Indeterminacy has been constantly accepted in Eastern mystical traditions, while in the West it has only recently gained attention. And these writers who were familiar with both traditions well developed the theme of indeterminacy in their writing.By studying these three authors' dominant concerns as these radiate out from indeterminacy, we get a better sense of how far they have taken us in a postmodernist East-West dialo gue of contemporary thought and expression and how the Easterners are potentially well equipped with spiritual traditions not only to understand Western postmodern literary phenomena which are still new to most Eastern readers but also to develop their own culture specific versions of postmodern literature and criticism. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
