Poetics of emptiness : transformations of Asian thought in American poetry /

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This book uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stalling, Jonathan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:American Literatures Initiative.
Subjects:
American poetry > Chinese influences.
Emptiness (Philosophy)
Philosophy > East Asia.
Poetics.
Poésie américaine > Influence chinoise.
Vide (Philosophie)
Poétique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Philosophy.
Xinjiang Uygur.
Dichtbundels.
East Asia.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Buddhist Imaginaries.
  • 1. Emptiness in Flux: The Buddhist Poetics of Ernest Fenollosa's "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry"
  • 2. Patterned Harmony: Buddhism, Sound, and Ernest Fenollosa's Poetics of Correlative Cosmology
  • 3. Teaching the Law: Gary Snyder's Poetics of Emptiness
  • pt. 2. Daoist Imaginaries
  • 4 Language of Emptiness: Wai-lim Yip's Daoist Project
  • 5. Pacing the Void: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée.

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