The Fracture of Meaning : : Japan's Synthesis of China from the Eighth through the Eighteenth Centuries / / David Pollack.

• VerfasserIn: Pollack, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5152
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

From the beginning of its recorded history until the opening to the West in the last century, Japan was caught between a love for and a rejection of Chinese civilization. David Pollack argues that the dialectical relationship between the two countries figured more importantly in the Japanese sense o...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Script and Scripture: The Kojiki and the Problem of Writing
• Chapter Two. The Informing Image: “China” in The Tale of Genji
• Chapter Three. “A Bridge Across the Mountains”: Chinese and the Aesthetics of the Shinkokinshu
• Chapter Four. “Chineseness” and “Japaneseness” in Early Medieval Zen: Kokan Shiren and Musō Soseki
• Chapter Five. Wakan and the Development of Renga Theory in the Late Fourteenth Century: Gido Shushin and Nijo Yoshimoto
• Chapter Six. Wakan in Literary Theory in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Zeami, Shōtetsu, Shinkei and Sōgi
• Chapter Seven. The Intellectual Contexts of Tokugawa Aesthetics: Itō Jinsai, Ogyū Sorai, and Genroku Culture
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index