Emptiness and temporality
Subtitle: Buddhism and medieval Japanese poetics
By: Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780804748889
Subjects: Shinkei, -- 1406-1475.; Renga -- History and criticism.; Buddhism and literature -- Japan.; Japanese poetry -- 1185-1945 -- History and criticism.; Poetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196) and index.
Table of contents: value: The Poetics of renga; value: The grammar of the renga sequence; value: The link as a structure of signification; value: Emptiness, or linking as différance; value: Linking as hermeneutical process; value: The link as figuration and metaphorical shift; value: Différance and "the jo-ha-kyū of the myriad arts"; value: Kokoro, or the emptiness of the sign; value: The close link and the distant link; value: Emptiness and enlightenment in poetry; value: Medieval symbolic poetry and Buddhist discourse; value: Beyond meaning: beauty is the aura of contemplation; value: Ushin: poetic process as meditation; value: Poetry and the instantaneous illumination of Zen; value: Linking by words and by mind: understanding, interpretation, and iterability; value: The chill and the meager (hieyase): poetics and the philosophy of the privative; value: The mode of ambiguity is the dharma body.