كتاب
Realms of literacy: early Japan and the history of writing
| العنوان: | Realms of literacy: early Japan and the history of writing |
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| المؤلفون: | Lurie, David Barnett. |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011. |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| وصف مادي: | xii, 497 p. ; 24 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Harvard East Asian monographs Harvard East Asian Monographs; |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Japanese language -- Writing -- History., Chinese characters -- Japan., Written communication -- Japan -- History., Writing -- Japan -- History., History. |
| الوصف: | 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. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | 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. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn676725377 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-674-06065-4 0-674-06065-2 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012777413.0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780674060654 0674060652 |
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