The Ecology of Place in Neil Gunn's Highland River and Nishida Kitarō's basho.
This essay describes similarities between the 1930s work of Neil Gunn – particularly the novel Highland River (1937) – and the work of the Kyoto School of philosophy from the same time – Watsuji Tetsurō, Nishitani Keiji, and particularly Nishida Kitarō. Nishida's concept of basho , roughly place , f...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Literary Review Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 25 - 47 |
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Autumn/Winter2024
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