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Emptiness and temporality : Buddhism and medieval Japanese poetics / Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen.
LIBRA PL732.R4 R27 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Renga--History and criticism.
- Renga.
- Buddhism and literature--Japan.
- Buddhism and literature.
- Japanese poetry--1185-1945--History and criticism.
- Japanese poetry.
- Shinkei, 1406-1475. Sasamegoto.
- Shinkei.
- Poetics.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- x, 208 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- The Poetics of renga
- The grammar of the renga sequence
- The link as a structure of signification
- Emptiness, or linking as différance
- Linking as hermeneutical process
- The link as figuration and metaphorical shift
- Différance and "the jo-ha-kyū of the myriad arts"
- Kokoro, or the emptiness of the sign
- The close link and the distant link
- Emptiness and enlightenment in poetry
- Medieval symbolic poetry and Buddhist discourse
- Beyond meaning: beauty is the aura of contemplation
- Ushin: poetic process as meditation
- Poetry and the instantaneous illumination of Zen
- Linking by words and by mind: understanding, interpretation, and iterability
- The chill and the meager (hieyase): poetics and the philosophy of the privative
- The mode of ambiguity is the dharma body.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804748889
- 0804748888
- OCLC:
- 174138879
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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