Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics

This Is An Account Of Classical Japanese Poetics Based On The Two Concepts Of Emptiness (ku) And Temporality (mujo) That Ground The Medieval Practice And Understanding Of Poetry. The Poetics Of Renga -- The Grammar Of The Renga Sequence -- The Link As A Structure Of Signification -- Emptiness, Or Linking As Différance -- Linking As Hermeneutical Process -- The Link As Figuration And Metaphorical Shift -- Différance And The Jo-ha-kyū Of The Myriad Arts -- Kokoro, Or The Emptiness Of The Sign -- The Close Link And The Distant Link -- Emptiness And Enlightenment In Poetry -- Medieval Symbolic Poetry And Buddhist Discourse -- Beyond Meaning: Beauty Is The Aura Of Contemplation -- Ushin: Poetic Process As Meditation -- Poetry And The Instantaneous Illumination Of Zen -- Linking By Words And By Mind: Understanding, Interpretation, And Iterability -- The Chill And The Meager (hieyase): Poetics And The Philosophy Of The Privative -- The Mode Of Ambiguity Is The Dharma Body. Esperanza Ramirez-christensen. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References (p. [191]-196) And Index. English