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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lurie, David Barnett (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Realms of literacy [Texte imprimé] : early Japan and the history of writing / David B. Lurie
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University
Press, 2011
Description matérielle : xxiii, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection : Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 335
Lien à la collection : Harvard East Asian monographs
Comprend : Part I: Literacy and power. Shards of writing? : Early fragments and the nature of
literacy ; Kings who did not read : scribes and the projection of power from the first
to the sixth century CE ; A world dense with writing : expanding literacies in the
seventh and eighth centuries ; Part II: Writing and language. Kundoku : reading,
writing, and translation in a single script ; Governing in prose : written style in
the Kojiki and Nihon shoki ; The poetry of writing : the Man'yōshū and its contexts
; Japan and the history of writing.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
In the world history of writing, Japan presents an unusually detailed record of transition
to literacy. Extant materials attest to the social, cultural, and political contexts
and consequences of the advent of writing and reading, from the earliest appearance
of imported artifacts with Chinese inscriptions in the first century BCE, through
the production of texts within the Japanese archipelago in the fifth century, to the
widespread literacies and the simultaneous rise of a full-fledged state in the late
seventh and eighth centuries. David B. Lurie explores the complex processes of adaptation
and invention that defined the early Japanese transition from orality to textuality.
Drawing on archaeological and archival sources varying in content, style, and medium,
this book highlights the diverse modes and uses of writing that coexisted in a variety
of configurations among different social groups. It offers new perspectives on the
pragmatic contexts and varied natures of multiple simultaneous literacies, the relations
between languages and systems of inscription, and the aesthetic dimensions of writing.
Lurie's investigation into the textual practices of early Japan illuminates not only
the cultural history of East Asia but also the broader comparative history of writing
and literacy in the ancient world
Sujet(s) : Japonais (langue)
Communication écrite -- Japon -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
495.611 (23e éd.) = Langue japonaise - Systèmes d'écriture
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674060654 (rel.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0674060652 (hc) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43823851h
Notice n° :
FRBNF43823851
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