| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 236 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 122
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Sinica Leidensia ; v. 122.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Art and Spontaneity; Su Shi as the 'Spontaneous Artist'; Chapter Outline; Chapter 1; The Poet as a Perfect Mirror; The Style, the Artist and the Way; The Education of the Artist as a Young Monk; Monastic Poetry and Its Controversy; Poetry as Skilful Means; Coda; Chapter 2; The Making of Spontaneity in a Work of Art; The Emphasis on Practice; Oblivion as a Form of Liberation; Lodging in a World of Resemblance; Coda; Chapter 3; Eloquent Stones; The Aesthetics of Nature and the Usefulness of Uselessness; The Lesson from a Grotesque Rock. |
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Uselessness of the Useful: the Case of InkstonesPoetry on Exchange: Rocks in Literati Economics; Coda; Chapter 4; Return to an Inner Utopia; Literary Friendship with an Ancient; A Metaphorical Landscape; A Poetic Ethnography; The Poetry of Discontent; Peach Blossom Spring as an Inner Utopia; Return; Coda; Chapter 5 ; The Spontaneous Body; The Amateur Alchemist before Mt Luofu; Reading Destiny; Discourse on the Dragon and the Tiger; The Daoist on White Crane Peak; Retreat from Nature; Active Immersion in Transience; Coda; Towards a Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Su, Shi, 1037-1101 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Su, Shi, 1037-1101. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Spontaneity (Philosophy) in literature.
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Spontaneity (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Poetics -- History -- To 1500.
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Poetics. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yang, Zhiyi, 1981- Dialectics of spontaneity. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] 9789004298491 (DLC) 2015015945 (OCoLC)910424270 |
| ISBN |
9789004298538 (electronic book) |
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9004298533 (electronic book) |
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9789004298491 (hardcover acid-free paper) |
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9004298495 (hardcover acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004298538 |
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