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Venturing upon dizzy heights : lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / Bruce Ross.
| Author/creator | Ross, Bruce, 1945- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Peter Lang, ©2008. |
| Description | viii, 121 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-121). |
| LCCN | 2008006186 |
| ISBN | 9781433102875 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1433102870 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | BH39 .R673 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |