Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, 1st ed. 2016
An Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Study

This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors? refreshing insights into such holistic and topical issues as the globalization of concepts of the Dao, the Yin/Yang, the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad, the Four Greats, Five Phases, Non-action and so on, as expressed in Canadian literature and criticism ? which produces Canadian-constructed Daoist poetics, ethics and aesthetics. Readers will come to understand and appreciate the social and ecological significance of, formal innovations, moral sensitivity, aesthetic principles and ideological complexity in Canadian-Daoist works.

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Malcolm Lowry and the Dao Chapter 3 Fred Cogswell’s Paradoxical Poetics of Suggestive Silence, Elaboration and the Dao’s Nature and Rhythms.- Chapter 4 Lo Fu: Fusing Daoist, Confucian and Western Poetics.- Chapter 5 Paul Yee’s Daoist and Confucian Ethics.- Chapter 6 “The Voyage that Never Ends:” Malcolm Lowry’s Taoist Aesthetics of Return/Renewal.- Chapter 7 Harmony, Beautiful Balance and “Fearful Symmetry: "Aspects of Fred Cogswell’s Yin/yang Aesthetics.- Chapter 8 Jacques Derrida and Chuang Tze: Some Analogies.