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Realms of Literacy : Early Japan and the History of Writing /
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 inscr...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.