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Emptiness and temporality Buddhism and medieval Japanese poetics

Title
Emptiness and temporality [electronic resource] : Buddhism and medieval Japanese poetics / Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen.
Author
Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

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1 online resource (x, 208 p.)
Uniform Title
Emptiness and temporality (Online)
Alternative Title
Emptiness and temporality (Online)
Subject
  • Shinkei, 1406-1475
  • Renga > History and criticism
  • Buddhism and literature > Japan
  • Japanese poetry > 1185-1600 > History and criticism
  • Poetics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196) and index.
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Contents
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.
LCCN
2007041851
OCLC
ssj0000920334
Author
Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U.
Title
Emptiness and temporality [electronic resource] : Buddhism and medieval Japanese poetics / Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen.
Imprint
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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