Poetics of emptiness
Subtitle: transformations of Asian thought in American poetry
By: Jonathan Stalling.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press; American Literatures Initiative
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780823231447
Subjects: American poetry -- Chinese influences; Emptiness (Philosophy); Philosophy -- East Asia; Poetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One:  Buddhist imaginaries.  1. Emptiness in flux:  The Buddhist poetics of Ernest  Fenollosa's "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry"; title: 2.  Patterned harmony:  Buddhism, sound, and Ernest Fenollosa's poetics of correlative cosmology; title: 3.  Teaching the law:  Gary Snyder's poetics of emptiness; title: Part Two:  Daoist imaginaries.  4.  Language of emptiness:  Wai-lim Yip's Daoist project; title: 5.  Pacing the void:  Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée.