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On Cold Mountain A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems / Paul Rouzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rouzer, Paul F.
- Series:
- China Program Books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism in literature.
- Chinese poetry--Tang dynasty, 618-907--History and criticism.
- Chinese poetry.
- Hanshan, active 627-649--Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this first serious study of Hanshan ("Cold Mountain"), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Hanshan's poems gained a large readership in English-speaking countries following the publication of Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums (1958) and Gary Snyder's translations (which began to appear that same year), and they have been translated into English more than any other body of Chinese verse. Rouzer investigates how Buddhism defined the way that believers may have read Hanshan in premodern times. He proposes a Buddhist poetics as a counter-model to the Confucian assumptions of Chinese literary thought and examines how texts by Kerouac, Snyder, and Jane Hirshfield respond to the East Asian Buddhist tradition.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Who Gets to Climb Cold Mountain?; Part One. The Poet; 1 Who Was Hanshan?; 2 Who Was Hanshan, Again?; Part Two. The Poems; 3 Juxtapositions; 4 At Home and Abroad; 5 Tropes; 6 Satire; Part Three. Reading Buddhists; 7 Who Gets to Climb the Matterhorn?; AFTERWORD; Notes; Glossary; B; C; D; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; X; Y; Z; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295806136
- 0295806133
- OCLC:
- 928626586
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