Sheldon Pollock's work on the history of literary cultures in the 'Sanskrit Cosmopolis' broke new ground in the theorization of historical processes of vernacularization and served as a wake-up call for comparative approaches to such processes in other translocal cultural formations. But are his characterizations of vernacularization in the Sinographic Sphere accurate, and do his ideas and framework allow us to speak of a 'Sinographic Cosmopolis'? How do the special typology of sinographic writing and associated technologies of vernacular reading complicate comparisons between the Sankrit and Latinate cosmopoleis? Such are the questions tackled in this volume.
Contributors are Daehoe Ahn, Yufen Chang, Wiebke Denecke, Torquil Duthie, Marion Eggert, Greg Evon, Hoduk Hwang, John Jorgensen, Ross King, David Lurie, Alexey Lushchenko, Si Nae Park, John Phan, Mareshi Saito, and S. William Wells.
Reihe
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 45 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43769-2 (9789004437692)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ross King earned his PhD in Linguistics at Harvard University, and specializes in the history of language, reading, writing, and literary cultures in the Sinographic Cosmopolis, with a focus on Korea in the fifteenth through twentieth centuries.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Editorial Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Introduction-Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Sinographic Cosmopolis and Beyond: Traditional East Asian Literary Cultures in Global Perspective
?Ross King
1 The Vernacular in the World of Wen: Sheldon Pollock's Model in East Asia?
?David B. Lurie
2 Pollock's Comparative Wake-Up Call: Towards the Historical and Conceptual Modeling of Premodern Literary Cultures and Institutions
?Wiebke Denecke
3 Vernacularizing the Cosmopolitan? Regional Sanskrits, "Stuffed Latin," "Variant Sinitic," and the Problem of Hybridity
?Ross King
part 1: Beginnings: Origins and Early Centuries of the Sinographic Cosmopolis
4 The Space of Cultivated Speech (yayan ??): Writing and Language in the Sinographic Sphere
?Saito Mareshi
5 Waka Poetry as a Cosmopolitan Vernacular in Early Japan
?Torquil Duthie
part 2: Medieval and Early Modern Cases from China, Japan, and Vietnam
6 Secondary Cosmopolitan Language(s): Non-literary Chinese and Its Use in Pre-modern Korea
?John Jorgensen
7 Documents and Fiction in Three Early Edo Biographies of Hideyoshi: Translations to and from Kanbun
?Alexy Lushchenko
8 A Crisis in the Cosmopolitan: Colonization and the Promotion of the Vernacular in an Early-Twentieth-Century Vietnamese Script Experiment
?John D. Phan
9 Traveling Civilization: The Sinographic Translational Network and Colonial Vietnam's Modern Lexicon Building, 1890s-1910s
?Yufen Chang
part 3: The Special Case of Korea: From Late Choson to Colonial Chosen
10 Literary Sinitic and Korea's Hierarchy of Inscriptional Practice
?W. Scott Wells
11 Script Apartheid and Literary Production in Pre-modern Korea: Framing Pollock's Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in East Asia
?Gregory N. Evon
12 Prolegomena to a Study of "Choson-Style Hanmun" ?????
?Ross King
13 The Lexical Vernacularity of the Tongp'ae naksong and the Boundaries of Korean Vernacular Literature
?Si Nae Park
14 Language Use and Language Discourse in Pak Chiwon's Yorha ilgi
?Marion Eggert
15 Late Choson Korean Intellectual Discourse on the Discrepancy between Speech and Writing
?Ahn Daehoe
16 The Geopolitics of Vernacularity and Sinographs: The Making of Bilingual Dictionaries in Modern Korea and the Shift from Sinographic Cosmopolis to "Sinographic Mediapolis"
?Hwang Hoduk
Index of Named Individuals
Index of Terms
Index of Texts Cited
