koan
koan [Jap.,=public question; Chin. kung-an ], a subject for meditation in Ch'an or Zen Buddhism , usually one of the sayings of a great Zen master of the past. In the formative period of Ch'an in China, masters tested the enlightenment of their students and of each other through statements and dialogue that expressed spiritual intuition in nonrational, paradoxical language. In later generations records of such conversations began to be used for teaching, and the first collections of subjects, or koans, were made in the 11th cent. Koan practice was transmitted to Japan as part of Zen in the 13th cent., and it remains one of the main practices of the Rinzai sect. The most famous koan collections are the Wu-men-kuan (Jap. Mu-mon-kan ) or "Gateless Gate" and the Pi-yen-lu (Jap. Heki-gan-roku ) or "Blue Cliff Records." A well-known koan is: "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
Bibliography: See D. T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism (1956); I. Miura and R. F. Sasaki, Zen Dust (1966); H. Dumoulin, A History of Zen Buddhism (1989).
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The invisible I: John Crowe Ransom's shadowy speaker.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Anthology of Modern Poetry introduces John Crowe Ransom with the claim that his "poems...something inconclusive" about Ransom's poems, a statement echoed...Robert Buffington)?(2) Is Ransom's poetry best characterized as...
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The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson, by Mark G. Malvasi...alienation and confusion. In this Warren differed from John Crowe Ransom, who continued to search for a refuge from...
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SIX PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED POEMS
Magazine article from: Michigan Quarterly Review; 7/1/2006; ; 496 words
; Editor's note: "John Crowe Ransom's poems could never be mistaken for anybody else's," says...significant new addition. They come from undated typescripts among the John Crowe Ransom papers in the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt...
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Repeating the "Implacable Monotone" in 'Thirty-Six Poems.'(Special Issue: Robert Pennn Warren)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...In his "Notes on the Poetry of John Crowe Ransom" published in the Kenyon Review...Penn Warren asks of two poems in Ransom's 1927 collection Two Gentlemen...entitled "The Manliness of Men" in Ransom's book is characterized by what...
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Before the New Criticism: Modernism and the Nashville Group.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Foundation.(3) Beginning in 1943, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling...Review (Rahv), Kenyon Review (Ransom), and Sewanee Review (Tate...on these three journals, which Ransom and the others saw as having the...
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HARDCOVERS IN BRIEF
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/4/1991; 700+ words
; ...of the day. Selected Poems, by John Crowe Ransom (Knopf, $22). It's good to...somewhat neglected, poets. Most of Ransom's poetic activity took place in...Vision by Sweetwater," "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter," "Piazza...
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In another country: Jean Stafford's literary apprenticeship in Baton Rouge.
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...had been studying at Kenyon with John Crowe Ransom, himself an exile from Vanderbilt...refused him a graduate fellowship, Ransom arranged a comparable offer at LSU...from Writers Conference luminaries John Peale Bishop, Ford Madox Ford...
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Jeremy Bentham's wager, the game of reading and "Wesron wind."
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...of the poem in the first place. John Crowe Ransom's essay on "Poetry: A Note in...1963 in Concepts of Criticism, Ransom's was the first convincing modern...essays on critical terminology, John Carlos Rowe has similarly described...
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"THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD"
Magazine article from: Humanities; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...classes in composition taught by a young professor named John Crowe Ransom. Mims and Walter Clyde Curry, a Shakespeare and Chaucer...suited Robert Penn, who memorized three thousand. John Crowe Ransom was, like a number of other Vanderbilt faculty...
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Mildred Haun: a haunting life story.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Appalachian Heritage; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...To complete her required hours, she enrolled in John Crowe Ransom's Creative Writing course. Ransom's encouragement...her expertise. It is particularly noteworthy that John Crowe Ransom would find Haun's stories of value since he...
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John Crowe Ransom
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974), American poet, critic, and agrarian champion, was the center of the "Fugitive" group, of the Southern Agrarians, and of the New Critics. John Crowe Ransom was born in Pulaski, Tennessee...
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Ransom, John Crowe
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Ransom, John Crowe (1888–1974), Tennessee poet, was educated in his native state and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1913). He was...
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Fugitive-Agrarians
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...a young English professor named John Crowe Ransom and his future colleague, Donald...long their enthusiasm spread to Ransom and, to a lesser extent, Warren...sons of Dixie as the Arkansas poet John Gould Fletcher, the novelist Stark...
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little magazine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1922-25), whose editors included John Crowe Ransom , Allen Tate , Donald Davidson...Iowa City, 1915-33), edited by John T. Frederick. Others were The Frontier...Orleans, 1921-26), edited by John McClure; and the Prairie Schooner...
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Robert Penn Warren
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...earned his baccalaureate at Vanderbilt University in 1925 where he knew John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and other Southern Agrarian poets who published the Fugitive...College (1958), Yale University (1959), Harvard University (1973), John
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