Experience and emptiness in Gary Snyder’s “Mountains and Rivers without end”

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20 pages

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08/29/2008

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Table of Contents Experience and emptiness in Gary Snyder’s “Mountains and Rivers without end” Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction.
  2. Mountains, rivers and a Wandering Poet.
  3. Zen Buddhism and post-structural theory.
  4. Into the mountains.
  5. The grammatical structure of 'Raven's Beak River/At the End'.
  6. Conclusion.

Abstract

Language orders our experience of reality. It establishes a scale of binary opposition dictating where one ends and another begins, clearly defining the relationship between what is and what isn't. This relationship grounds our notion of self and creates the framework through which we interpret and sift through the overwhelming diversity of the human experience. It is through this process of interpretation that meaning is created, that the fragments of experience are assembled to compose just who "I" am. But according to post-structural literary theory this "I" is arbitrary. If words are the signs upon which reality is ordered, both describing and simultaneously creating the meaning that defines our experience of being, how do we express that which is beyond language? Where do we distinguish between the experience of reality and the expression of that experience?

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Level :Advanced Study : Literature School/University : College of Wooster

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