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Author Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U

Title Emptiness and temporality : Buddhism and medieval Japanese poetics / Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 208 pages)
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
Summary This is an account of classical Japanese poetics based on the two concepts of emptiness (ku) and temporality (mujo) that ground the medieval practice and understanding of poetry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Shinkei, 1406-1475. Sasamegoto
SUBJECT Sasamegoto (Shinkei) fast
Subject Renga -- History and criticism
Buddhism and literature -- Japan
Japanese poetry -- 1185-1945 -- History and criticism
Poetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese
Buddhism and literature
Poetics
Renga
Japan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online). Literature (SSO) Jun 2013
ISBN 0804779406
9780804779401