TY - BOOK ID - 78147479 TI - John Cage and Buddhist ecopoetics PY - 2013 SN - 1472543645 1623562341 9781623562342 1441117520 9781441117526 1441104666 9781441104663 9781441104663 9781441117526 9781623565435 162356543X 9781472543646 PB - London New York DB - UniCat KW - Authorship KW - Buddhism and literature. KW - Ecology in literature. KW - Philosophy of nature in literature. KW - Buddhism and the arts KW - Literature KW - Religious aspects KW - Buddhism. KW - Cage, John. KW - C., J. KW - Cage, John Milton, KW - J. C. KW - Keidž, Džon KW - Keĭdzh, Dzhon KW - Kēji, Jon KW - Cage, John UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78147479 AB - "John Cage was among the first wave of post-war American artists and intellectuals to be influenced by Zen Buddhism and it was an influence that led him to become profoundly engaged with our current ecological crisis. In John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics, Peter Jaeger asks: what did Buddhism mean to Cage? And how did his understanding of Buddhist philosophy impact on his representation of nature? Following Cage's own creative innovations in the poem-essay form and his use of the ancient Chinese text, the I Ching to shape his music and writing, this book outlines a new critical language that reconfigures writing and silence. Interrogating Cage's 'green-Zen' in the light of contemporary psychoanalysis and cultural critique as well as his own later turn towards anarchist politics, John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics provides readers with a critically performative site for the Zen-inspired "nothing" which resides at the heart of Cage's poetics, and which so clearly intersects with his ecological writing."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -