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Author Yang, Zhiyi, 1981- author.

Title Dialectics of spontaneity : the aesthetics and ethics of Su Shi (1037-1101) in poetry / by Zhiyi Yang
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xi, 236 pages))
Series Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 122
Sinica Leidensia ; v. 122
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index
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Subject Su, Shi, 1037-1101 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Su, Shi, 1037-1101 fast
Su, Shi 1037-1101 gnd
Subject Poetics -- History -- To 1500
Spontaneity (Philosophy) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
POETRY -- Anthologies (multiple authors)
Poetics
Spontaneity (Philosophy) in literature
Lyrik
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020717725
ISBN 9789004298538
9004298533