Emptiness and temporality : Buddhism and medieval Japanese poetics / [electronic resource]
Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U.
Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U.Author
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2008.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196) and index.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
Description based on print version record.
Shinkei, 1406-1475.
Renga
Buddhism and literature
Japanese poetry
Poetics.
Japanese poetry
Renga
Buddhism and literature
Japanese poetry
Poetics
Languages & Literatures
East Asian Languages & Literatures