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This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors´ refreshing insights into such holistic and topical issues as the globalization of concepts of the Dao, the Yin/Yang, the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad, the Four Greats, Five Phases, Non-action and so on, as expressed in Canadian literature and criticism - which produces Canadian-constructed Daoist poetics, ethics and aesthetics. Readers will come to understand and appreciate the social and ecological significance of, formal innovations, moral sensitivity, aesthetic principles and ideological complexity in Canadian-Daoist works.

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Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Malcolm Lowry and the Dao Chapter 3 Fred Cogswell´s Paradoxical Poetics of Suggestive Silence, Elaboration and the Dao´s Nature and Rhythms.- Chapter 4 Lo Fu: Fusing Daoist, Confucian and Western Poetics.- Chapter 5 Paul Yee´s Daoist and Confucian Ethics.- Chapter 6 "The Voyage that Never Ends:" Malcolm Lowry´s Taoist Aesthetics of Return/Renewal.- Chapter 7 Harmony, Beautiful Balance and "Fearful Symmetry: "Aspects of Fred Cogswell´s Yin/yang Aesthetics.- Chapter 8 Jacques Derrida and Chuang Tze: Some Analogies.

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"The volume is highly recommended not only for specialists in Chinese Studies, but anyone taking an interest in Daoism and in the way it operates in a modern Western literary framework." (Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 44 (03), September, 2018)

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