Poet-Monks The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China
Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Bu...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009790839706719 |
Table of Contents:
- POET-MONKS
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Conventions
- Introduction
- PART I. HISTORY
- 1. Introducing Poet-Monks: History, Geography, and Sociality
- 2. Inventing Poet-Monks: The First Generation and Their Reception, 760-810
- 3. Becoming Poet-Monks: The Formation of a Tradition, 810-960
- PART II. POETICS
- 4. Repetition: Retriplication and Negation
- 5. Incantation: Sonority and Foreignness
- 6. Meditation: Effort and Absorption
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
