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: title: The Poetics of renga; title: The grammar of the renga sequence; title: The link as a structure of signification; title: Emptiness, or linking as différance; title: Linking as hermeneutical process; title: The link as figuration and metaphorical shift; title: Différance and "the jo-ha-kyū of the myriad arts"; title: Kokoro, or the emptiness of the sign; title: The close link and the distant link; title: Emptiness and enlightenment in poetry; title: Medieval symbolic poetry and Buddhist discourse; title: Beyond meaning: beauty is the aura of contemplation; title: Ushin: poetic process as meditation; title: Poetry and the instantaneous illumination of Zen; title: Linking by words and by mind: understanding, interpretation, and iterability; title: The chill and the meager (hieyase): poetics and the philosophy of the privative; title: The mode of ambiguity is the dharma body.