 | Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics that takes its starting point in the two Buddhist concepts of emptiness (J. kû) and temporality (mujô) that ground the medieval understanding of poetry, and examines their affinity with contemporary Western theory, particularly Derridean différance and deconstruction. Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen is Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Heart's Flower: The Life and Poetry of Shinkei (Stanford, 1994), and the co-editor of The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father (2001). |
