UID:
almahu_9949701535302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004436947
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9789004433465
Series Statement:
Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis ; 2
Content:
In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature , Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of Literary Sinitic poetry and prose in the creation of modern literary Japanese. Saito's new understanding of the role of " kanbunmyaku " in the formation of Japanese literary modernity challenges dominant narratives tied to translations from modern Western literatures and problematizes the antagonism between Literary Sinitic and Japanese in the modern academy. Saito shows how kundoku (vernacular reading) and its rhythms were central to the rise of new inscriptional styles, charts the changing relationship of modern poets and novelists to kanbunmyaku , and concludes that the chronotope of modern Japan was based in a language world supported by the Literary Sinitic Context.
Note:
Front Matter --
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Copyright page /
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Editors' Preface: Saitō Mareshi, the "Literary Sinitic Context," and Literary Modernity in the Former Sinographic Cosmopolis /
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Author's Preface to the English Edition /
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Illustrations /
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Introduction /
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Chapter 1 What Is the Literary Sinitic Context?: Two Poles of Style and Thought /
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Chapter 2 Why Did the Reading and Writing of Kanbun Spread?-The Unofficial History of Japan and the Voice of Kundoku /
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Chapter 3 The Formation of a National Literary Style: The Civilization and Enlightenment Movement and Kundokubun /
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Chapter 4 When Did the "Modern" Begin in Japanese Literature?: Romantic Love as the Antithesis of Politics /
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Chapter 5 Japanese Novelists, Nostalgia, and the Exotic: China as the Land of Romantic Love and Revolution /
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Chapter 6 The Horizon of Literary Sinitic: From the Literary Sinitic Context to a New Kind of Japanese Language /
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Back Matter --
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Bibliography /
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Index of Chinese and Japanese Terms /
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General Index /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kanbunmyaku : The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 ISBN 9789004433465
Language:
English
