TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ross,Bruce
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Venturing upon dizzy heights: lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts 
AV  - BH39 .R673 2008eb
U1  - 111/.85 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Arts
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-121); 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2012; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -