Stalling

Poetics of Emptiness (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 sections. The first focuses on "e;transpacific Buddhist poetics,"e; while the second maps the less well-known terrain of "e;transpacific Daoist poetics."e; In Chapters 1 and 2, the author explores Ernest Fenollosa's "e;The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry"e; as an expression of Fenollosa's distinctly Buddhist poetics informed by a two-decade-long encounter with a culturally hybrid form of Buddhism known as Shin Bukkyo ("e;New Buddhism"e;). Chapter 2 explores the classical Chinese poetics that undergirds the lost half of Fenellosa's essay. Chapter 3 concludes the first half of the book with an exploration of the didactic and soteriological function of "e;emptiness"e; in Gary Snyder's influential poetry and poetics. The second half begins with a critical exploration of the three-decades-long career of the poet/translator/critic Wai-lim Yip, whose "e;transpacific Daoist poetics"e; has been an important fixture in American poetic late modernism and has begun to gain wider notoriety in China. The last chapter engages the intertextual weave of poststructural thought and Daoist and shamanistic discourses in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's important body of heterocultural productions. By formulating interpretive frames as hybrid as the texts being read, this book makes available one of the most important yet still largely unknown stories of American poetry and poetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823231461
• Artikelnr.: 44777032

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Stalling is Professor of English and Curator of the Chinese Literature Translation Archive at the University of Oklahoma, where he is also Deputy Executive Director and a founding Editor of Chinese Literature Today journal and book series. Stalling is the author, translator, or editor of six books, including Poetics of Emptiness (Fordham), Yíng?lìsh?: Sinophonic English Poetry and Poetics (Counterpath), and Winter Sun: Poems, by Shi Zhi (Oklahoma). Dr. Stalling's TEDx talks on Chinese-English interlanguage art and technology are available on YouTube; and his latest installation, "Poetics of Invention," can be found at https://poeticsofinvention.ou.edu.