Dialectics of spontaneity : the aesthetics and ethics of Su Shi (1037-1101) in poetry /
In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Series: | Sinica Leidensia ;
v. 122. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Art and Spontaneity; Su Shi as the 'Spontaneous Artist'; Chapter Outline; Chapter 1; The Poet as a Perfect Mirror; The Style, the Artist and the Way; The Education of the Artist as a Young Monk; Monastic Poetry and Its Controversy; Poetry as Skilful Means; Coda; Chapter 2; The Making of Spontaneity in a Work of Art; The Emphasis on Practice; Oblivion as a Form of Liberation; Lodging in a World of Resemblance; Coda; Chapter 3; Eloquent Stones; The Aesthetics of Nature and the Usefulness of Uselessness; The Lesson from a Grotesque Rock.
- Uselessness of the Useful: the Case of InkstonesPoetry on Exchange: Rocks in Literati Economics; Coda; Chapter 4; Return to an Inner Utopia; Literary Friendship with an Ancient; A Metaphorical Landscape; A Poetic Ethnography; The Poetry of Discontent; Peach Blossom Spring as an Inner Utopia; Return; Coda; Chapter 5 ; The Spontaneous Body; The Amateur Alchemist before Mt Luofu; Reading Destiny; Discourse on the Dragon and the Tiger; The Daoist on White Crane Peak; Retreat from Nature; Active Immersion in Transience; Coda; Towards a Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.