FromYomihontoGôkan
Repetition and Difference in Late Edo Book Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608826 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James R Reichert, James Reichert (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 311-332 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911817000031 |
| OpenAlex | W2595579017 |
| Language | FI |
| References cited | 12 |
One of the noteworthy trends of the last years of the Edo period was the production ofgôkan(assembled volumes), reworkings of recently published material. Focusing on the digestInu no sôshi(Storybook of dogs, 1848-81) and its source text, the famedyomihon(reading book)Hakkenden(Chronicle of eight dogs, 1814-42), I use theories of adaptation, remediation, translation, and bibliographic transcription to consider the transition from one book form to another and what these changes reveal about contrasting visions of book culture, the image-text matrix, and written language at the dawn of the modern era. Through comparison of the signifying mechanisms and aesthetic principles materialized in these texts, I strive to complicate the conventional understanding of how the interpretative operations of seeing and reading obtained toward these two book formats
Art · Humanities · Japanese culture · Japanese studies · Linguistics · Literature · Reading (process) · Repetition (rhetorical device) · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |