Pt. One Transcendentalists
1. Henry David Thoreau and Confucian Ethics
2. The Poetics of Subjectivity: Emerson, Zen, and Lacan
3. Emerson, Whitman, and Zen Aesthetics
4. W. B. Yeats's Poetics in the Noh Play
5. Yone Noguchi, Ezra Pound, and Imagism
6. Albert Camus's The Stranger and Richard Wright's The Outsider
7. Richard Wright's Haiku and Modernist Poetics
8. Jack Kerouac's Haiku, Beat Poetics, and On the Road
pt. Three African American Writers
9. The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
10. Pagan Spain: Richard Wright's Discourse on Religion, Politics, and Culture
11. Private Voice and Buddhist Enlightenment in Alice Walker's The Color Purple
12. Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, and African Culture
13. African American Haiku: Richard Wright, Sonia Sanchez, and James Emanuel.
