John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics

Dr Peter Jaeger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2013
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-4411-1752-6 (ISBN)

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John Cage was among the first wave of post-war American artists and intellectuals to be influenced by Zen Buddhism and it was an influence that led him to become profoundly engaged with our current ecological crisis. In John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics, Peter Jaeger asks: what did Buddhism mean to Cage? And how did his understanding of Buddhist philosophy impact on his representation of nature? Following Cage’s own creative innovations in the poem-essay form and his use of the ancient Chinese text, the I Ching to shape his music and writing, this book outlines a new critical language that reconfigures writing and silence.

Interrogating Cage’s ‘green-Zen’ in the light of contemporary psychoanalysis and cultural critique as well as his own later turn towards anarchist politics, John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics provides readers with a critically performative site for the Zen-inspired “nothing” which resides at the heart of Cage’s poetics, and which so clearly intersects with his ecological writing.

Peter Jaeger is Reader in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Roehampton University, UK.

Series Editors Introduction / Preface: The Buddhist Quilting Point / Cage - Scalapino - Davies / Reading New Buddhist Poetry / Further Reading / Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.9.2013
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Religion and Literature
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-4411-1752-0 / 1441117520
ISBN-13	978-1-4411-1752-6 / 9781441117526
Zustand	Neuware