Tsadra Foundation and the Buddhist Digital Resource Center
出版地
US [美國]
資料類型
期刊論文=Journal Article
使用語言
英文=English
關鍵詞
Milarepa; Tsangyon Heruka; belle lettres; literature; Tibetan literature
摘要
This essay explores some of the outstanding literary flourishes of Tsangnyon Heruka’s Mila Life Story and attempts to analyse how they work in the narrative. It advances a theory about the “literary affordances” of texts, which make possible varying levels of detail, irony, suspended resolution, and multiple points of view, and which serve to enhance the interest and impact of the story. It also argues that there is a discernible self-reflexivity when texts take advantage of these kinds of license, seemingly delighting in their own artfulness. The essay examines several episodes in the Life Story which illustrate these features of the work’s literary brilliance.
Abstract 185 Low-Hanging Fruit 188 It’s Real 190 It’s Real and Funny 193 Multiple Points of View 196 Clicks Into Place Over Time 201 Leaping Across the Chasm 205 Bibliography 209
