Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts /

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Autor principal: Ross, Bruce, 1945-
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New York : Peter Lang, c2008.
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Taula de continguts:
  • Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty
  • Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism
  • Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry
  • The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue
  • Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art
  • Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights
  • Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting
  • The essence of haiku
  • A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku
  • Narratives of the heart : haibun
  • On defining haibun to a western audience
  • Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.