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].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saitō, Mareshi, 1963- author.

Contributor:

King, Ross, editor.

Laffin, Christina, editor.

Russell, Sean, translator.

齋藤, 希史(1963-)

Series:

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

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Meiji period, 1868-1912--Foreign elements.

Japanese literature.

Japanese language--Meiji period, 1868-1912--Foreign elements.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

xxix, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

漢文脈と近代日本 : もう一つのことばの世界

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Saitō, Mareshi, 1963- Kanbunmyaku to kindai Nihon. English. Kanbunmyaku.

ISBN:

9789004433465

9004433465

9789004436947

9004436944

OCLC:

1154892462