Emptiness and Temporality
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-4888-9 (ISBN)
Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics based, for the first time, on the two concepts of emptiness (J.kū) and temporality (mujō) that ground the medieval practice and understanding of poetry. It clarifies the unique structure of the collective poetic genre called renga (linked poetry) by analyzing Shinkei's writings, particularly Sasamegoto. This book engages contemporary Western theory, especially Derrida's concepts of différance and deconstruction, to illuminate the progressive displacement that constitutes the dynamic poetry of the renga link as the sequence moves from verse 1 to 100. It also draws on phenomenology, Heidegger's Being and Time, Bakhtin's notion of the dialogical, Gadamer's Truth and Method, hermeneutics, and the concept of translation to delve into philosophical issues of language, mind, and the creative process. Furthermore, the book traces the development of the Japanese sense of the sublime and ineffable (yūgen and its variants) from the identification, by earlier waka poets like Shunzei and Teika, of their artistic practice with Buddhist meditation (Zen or shikan), and of superior poetry as the ecstatic figuration of the Dharma realm. Emptiness and Temporality constitutes a radically new definition of Japanese poetry from the medieval period onward as a symbolist poetry, a figuration of the sacred rather than a representation of nature, and reveals how the spiritual or moral dimension is essential to an understanding of traditional Japanese aesthetic ideals and practices, such as Nô performance, calligraphy, and black-ink painting.
Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen is Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Heart's Flower: The Life and Poetry of Shinkei (Stanford, 1994), and the co-editor of The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father (2001).
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii List of Abbreviationsiii @toc2:Introduction1 @toc1:Part OneThe Poetics of Renga @toc2:1.The Grammar of the Renga Sequence000 2.The Link as a Structure of Signification000 3.Emptiness, or Linking as Diff'rance000 4.Linking as Hermeneutical Process000 5.The Link as Figuration and Metaphorical Shift000 6.Diff'rance and "the Jo-ha-ky' of the Myriad Arts"000 @toc1:Part TwoKokoro, or the Emptiness of the Sign @toc2:7.The Close Link and the Distant Link000 8.Emptiness and Enlightenment in Poetry000 9.Medieval Symbolic Poetry and Buddhist Discourse000 10.Beyond Meaning: Beauty Is the Aura of Contemplation 000 11.Ushin: Poetic Process as Meditation000 12.Poetry and the Instantaneous Illumination of Zen000 13.Linking by Words and by Mind: Understanding, Interpretation, and Iterability000 14.The Chill and the Meager (Hieyase): Poetics and the Philosophy of the Privative000 15.The Mode of Ambiguity Is the Dharma-Body000 @toc4:Notes000 Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts000 Bibliography000 Index000
| Zusatzinfo | 1 table |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 422 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8047-4888-8 / 0804748888 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8047-4888-9 / 9780804748889 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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