On Cold Mountain (eBook)

A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems

Paul Rouzer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
280 Seiten
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-80613-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In this first serious study of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618907). Hanshans poems gained a large readership in English-speaking countries following the publication of Jack Kerouacs novel The Dharma Bums (1958) and Gary Snyders translations (which began to appear that same year), and they have been translated into English more than any other body of Chinese verse. Rouzer investigates how Buddhism defined the way that believers may have read Hanshan in premodern times. He proposes a Buddhist poetics as a counter-model to the Confucian assumptions of Chinese literary thought and examines how texts by Kerouac, Snyder, and Jane Hirshfield respond to the East Asian Buddhist tradition.

Autor

Paul Rouzer is professor of Asian languages and literatures at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese and Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts.

Inhalt

Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction | Who Gets to Climb Cold Mountain?Part One | The Poet1. Who Was Hanshan? 2. Who Was Hanshan, Again?Part Two | The Poems3. Juxtapositions4. At Home and Abroad5. Tropes6. SatirePart Three | Reading Buddhists7. Who Gets to Climb the Matterhorn? AfterwordNotes Glossary Bibliography Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: China Program Books
• Reihe/Serie: China Program Books
• Reihe/Serie: China Program Books
• Verlagsort: Seattle
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-295-80613-3 / 0295806133
• ISBN-13: 978-0-295-80613-6 / 9780295806136