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Emptiness and temporality : Buddhism and medieval Japanese poetics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Renga > History and criticism.
Buddhism and literature > Japan.
Japanese poetry > 1185-1945 > History and criticism.
Shinkei, > 1406-1475. > Sasamegoto.
Poetics.
Table of 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.