Research Catalog

Title

Kanbunmyaku : the literary sinitic context and the birth of modern Japanese language and literature / by Mareshi Saito ; edited by Ross King, Christina Laffin ; translated by Sean Russell [and 5 others].

Author

Saitō, Mareshi, 1963-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Additional Authors

• King, Ross, 1961-
• Laffin, Christina
• Russell, Sean

Description

xxix, 231 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 25 cm.

Summary

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. Translated by Ross King and Christina Laffin.

Series Statement

Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; volume 2

Uniform Title

Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; volume 2.

Subject

• 1868-1912
• Japanese literature > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > Foreign elements
• Japanese language > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > Foreign elements

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 22-2231

ISBN

• 9789004433465
• 9004433465

OCLC

1154892462

Author

Saitō, Mareshi, 1963- author.

Title

Kanbunmyaku : the literary sinitic context and the birth of modern Japanese language and literature / by Mareshi Saito ; edited by Ross King, Christina Laffin ; translated by Sean Russell [and 5 others].

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; volume 2

Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; volume 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1868-1912

Added Author

King, Ross, 1961- editor.

Laffin, Christina, editor.

Russell, Sean, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Saitō, Mareshi, 1963- Kanbunmyaku to kindai Nihon. English. Kanbunmyaku. Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2021] 9004436944 (OCoLC)1230462207

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2231