authorship in East Asian literatures from the beginnings to the seventeenth century
Published:
2014
Publisher:
Brill, Leiden
Did East Asian literatures lack a concept of authorship before their integration into classical modernity? Distinguishing various author functions, which can be distributed among several individuals, this edited volume covers the whole spectrum from...
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Did East Asian literatures lack a concept of authorship before their integration into classical modernity? Distinguishing various author functions, which can be distributed among several individuals, this edited volume covers the whole spectrum from composite to individual forms of authorship
Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 Composite Authorship in Western Zhōu Bronze Inscriptions: The Case of the "Tiānwáng guĭ " 天亡簋 Inscription; 2 Authorship in the Canon of Songs (Shi Jing); 3 The Compiler as the Narrator: Awareness of Authorship, Authorial Presence and Author Figurations in Japanese Imperial Anthologies, with a Special Focus on the Kokin wakashū; 4 Fluidity of Belonging and Creative Appropriation: Authorship and Translation in an Early Sinic Song ("Kongmudoha Ka" 公無渡河歌)
5 Appropriating Genius: Jin Shengtan's Construction of Textual Authority and Authorship in His Commented Edition of Shuihu Zhuan (The Water Margin Saga)6 Enlightened Authorship: The Case of Dōgen Kigen; General Index; Name Index