LEADER 04748nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910781150203321 005 20230120093848.0 010 $a0-8232-3145-3 010 $a0-8232-4435-0 010 $a0-8232-4648-5 010 $a0-8232-4183-1 010 $a1-283-29709-4 010 $a9786613297099 010 $a0-8232-3146-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823244355 035 $a(CKB)2550000000017378 035 $a(EBL)3239518 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486570 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11328709 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486570 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10429867 035 $a(PQKB)10432553 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000054612 035 $a(OCoLC)712990679 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16214 035 $a(DE-B1597)554952 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823244355 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239518 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389903 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL329709 035 $a(OCoLC)923763475 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769855 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704259 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239518 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704259 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000017378 100 $a20100225d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPoetics of emptiness$b[electronic resource] $etransformations of Asian thought in American poetry /$fJonathan Stalling 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (284 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican Literatures Initiative 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-4183-1 311 $a0-8232-3144-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Figures and Tables -- $tList of Figures and Tables -- $tPrologue: Transformations of a Transpacific Imaginary -- $tIntroduction: The Poetics of Emptiness, or a Cult of Nothingness -- $t1 Emptiness in Flux: The Buddhist Poetics of Ernest Fenollosa?s ?The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry? -- $t2 Patterned Harmony: Buddhism, Sound, and Ernest Fenollosa?s Poetics of Correlative Cosmology -- $t3 Teaching the Law: Gary Snyder?s Poetics of Emptiness -- $t4 Language of Emptiness: Wai-lim Yip?s Daoist Project -- $t5 Pacing the Void: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha?s Dictée -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poetics. This conceptual migration is detailed in two sections. The first focuses on "transpacific Buddhist poetics," while the second maps the less well-known terrain of "transpacific Daoist poetics." In Chapters 1 and 2, the author explores Ernest Fenollosa's "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry" as an expression of Fenollosa's distinctly Buddhist poetics informed by a two-decade-long encounter with a culturally hybrid form of Buddhism known as Shin Bukkyo ("New Buddhism"). Chapter 2 explores the classical Chinese poetics that undergirds the lost half of Fenellosa's essay. Chapter 3 concludes the first half of the book with an exploration of the didactic and soteriological function of "emptiness" in Gary Snyder's influential poetry and poetics. The second half begins with a critical exploration of the three-decades-long career of the poet/translator/critic Wai-lim Yip, whose "transpacific Daoist poetics" has been an important fixture in American poetic late modernism and has begun to gain wider notoriety in China. The last chapter engages the intertextual weave of poststructural thought and Daoist and shamanistic discourses in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's important body of heterocultural productions. By formulating interpretive frames as hybrid as the texts being read, this book makes available one of the most important yet still largely unknown stories of American poetry and poetics. 410 0$aAmerican Literatures Initiative 606 $aAmerican poetry$xChinese influences 606 $aEmptiness (Philosophy) 606 $aPhilosophy$zEast Asia 606 $aPoetics 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xChinese influences. 615 0$aEmptiness (Philosophy) 615 0$aPhilosophy 615 0$aPoetics. 676 $a811.009384 700 $aStalling$b Jonathan$01515271 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781150203321 996 $aPoetics of emptiness$93750923 997 $aUNINA