Poetics of Emptiness : : Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry /

Poetics of Emptiness : : Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry / / Jonathan Stalling.

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The Poetics of Emptiness 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. This conceptual migration is detailed in two...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Stalling, Jonathan,
MitwirkendeR:
Stalling, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Prologue: Transformations of a Transpacific Imaginary
  • Introduction: The Poetics of Emptiness, or a Cult of Nothingness
  • PART ONE 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
  • PART TWO Daoist Imaginaries
  • 4 Language of Emptiness: Wai-lim Yip’s Daoist Project
  • 5 Pacing the Void: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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