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Kanbunmyaku the literary sinitic context and the birth of modern Japanese language and literature

Title
Kanbunmyaku [electronic resource] : the literary sinitic context and the birth of modern Japanese language and literature / by Mareshi Saitō ; edited by Ross King, Christina Laffin ; translated by Sean Bussell [and 5 others].
Author
Saitō, Mareshi, 1963-
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Additional Authors
  • King, Ross.
  • Laffin, Christina.
  • Bussell, Sean.
Description
1 online resource (xxix, 231 pages) : illustrations.
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.00Translated by Ross Kind and Christina Laffin.
Series Statement
Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis ; volume 2
Uniform Title
  • Kanbunmyaku (Online)
  • Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; volume 2.
Alternative Title
Kanbunmyaku (Online)
Subject
  • 1868-1912
  • Japanese literature > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > Foreign elements
  • Japanese language > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > Foreign elements
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-217) and indexes.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
LCCN
2021287370
OCLC
ssj0002583814
Author
Saitō, Mareshi, 1963-
Title
Kanbunmyaku [electronic resource] : the literary sinitic context and the birth of modern Japanese language and literature / by Mareshi Saitō ; edited by Ross King, Christina Laffin ; translated by Sean Bussell [and 5 others].
Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
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 (pages [213]-217) and indexes.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Chronological Term
1868-1912
Added Author
King, Ross.
Laffin, Christina.
Bussell, Sean.
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