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Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen - Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics - 9780804748889 - V9780804748889
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Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics

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Description for Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics Hardback. Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics that takes its starting point in the two Buddhist concepts of emptiness (J. ku) and temporality (mujo) that ground the medieval understanding of poetry, and examines their affinity with contemporary Western theory, particularly Derridean differance and deconstruction. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1F; DSC; GTB; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 422.

Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics based, for the first time, on the two concepts of emptiness (J.) 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804748889
SKU
V9780804748889
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Ref
99-1

About Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
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).

Reviews for Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics
"Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen has offered a compelling study of the position of Buddhism within Shinkei's poetics. Building on her great project of studying the life and writings of Shinkei, she has given us a window into a world where the lines between religion and artistic practice were blurred—and, in the case of Shinkei, ultimately disappeared. Ramirez-Christensen's study is an important contribution ... Read more

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