Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_542
dc.creator	Negri Carolina
dc.creator	Tommasi Pier Carlo
dc.title	Images from the Past: Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature
dc.type	Miscellanea
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and career stages to rethink the role and scope of intertextuality in the context of premodern Japan. From antiquity to the rise of modernity, originality through repetition persists as a staple in the literary, performative, and artistic traditions of this country. Nonetheless, rather than slavish recycling of pre-existing tropes, the redeployment of familiar motifs by patterns of borrowing, allusion, and imitation would become a means to explore untrodden creative pathways and craft a shared sense of cultural belonging. Stemming from an international symposium hosted at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2021 with the generous support of The Japan Foundation, the papers in this collection offer a thoughtful contribution to this debate by engaging texts from different historical periods, media, and genres – be it poetic, narrative, theatrical, visual, or religious. Although intertextuality may not be a new topic, the essays that follow attest to the enduring appeal of a concept whose explanatory power proves most effective when combined with other methods of inquiry, such as discourse analysis, social sciences, gender studies, and material culture. Thus, while opening new windows onto Japan’s literary worlds, these cross-disciplinary approaches provide further insights into the uses (and abuses) of the past in a non-Western non-modern society.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Arts and Literature
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-608-4
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-08-30
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-609-1/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-609-1
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-608-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Baba Bunkō
dc.subject	Book indexes
dc.subject	Buddhism
dc.subject	Chinese novels
dc.subject	Classical Chinese literature
dc.subject	Commentaries
dc.subject	Court Diary
dc.subject	Dōgen
dc.subject	Edo literature
dc.subject	Fantastic literature
dc.subject	Female enlightenment
dc.subject	Fujiwara no Shunzei (Toshinari)
dc.subject	Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)
dc.subject	Gender dynamics
dc.subject	Genji monogatari
dc.subject	Genji monogatari
dc.subject	Inner scriptures
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Ise monogatari
dc.subject	Japanese poetry
dc.subject	Kabuki
dc.subject	Kana literature
dc.subject	Katsura Bunji I
dc.subject	Kawara-no-in
dc.subject	Ki no Tsurayuki, Kagerō nikki
dc.subject	Kokin wakashū
dc.subject	Layers of narration in intertextuality
dc.subject	Metatextuality
dc.subject	Morishima Chūryō
dc.subject	Mythologies
dc.subject	Nihon ryōiki
dc.subject	Nō theatre
dc.subject	Nun Abutsu
dc.subject	Outer writings
dc.subject	Premodern Japanese literature
dc.subject	Re-interpretation
dc.subject	Religion
dc.subject	Roland Barthes
dc.subject	San’yūtei Enchō
dc.subject	Sarashina nikki
dc.subject	Sarayashiki
dc.subject	Sharebon
dc.subject	Shinkokinshū
dc.subject	Sūtras
dc.subject	Temporality
dc.subject	Text
dc.subject	Tsuruya Nanboku IV
dc.subject	Utatane
dc.subject	Waka
dc.subject	Yomihon
dc.subject	Zen

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Carolina Negri Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Pier Carlo Tommasi University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA

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abstract

This volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and career stages to rethink the role and scope of intertextuality in the context of premodern Japan. From antiquity to the rise of modernity, originality through repetition persists as a staple in the literary, performative, and artistic traditions of this country. Nonetheless, rather than slavish recycling of pre-existing tropes, the redeployment of familiar motifs by patterns of borrowing, allusion, and imitation would become a means to explore untrodden creative pathways and craft a shared sense of cultural belonging. Stemming from an international symposium hosted at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2021 with the generous support of The Japan Foundation, the papers in this collection offer a thoughtful contribution to this debate by engaging texts from different historical periods, media, and genres – be it poetic, narrative, theatrical, visual, or religious. Although intertextuality may not be a new topic, the essays that follow attest to the enduring appeal of a concept whose explanatory power proves most effective when combined with other methods of inquiry, such as discourse analysis, social sciences, gender studies, and material culture. Thus, while opening new windows onto Japan’s literary worlds, these cross-disciplinary approaches provide further insights into the uses (and abuses) of the past in a non-Western non-modern society.

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30 Agosto 2022

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-609-1

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-608-4

Keywords

Edo literature • Japanese poetry • Temporality • Sharebon • Kana literature • Dōgen • Religion • Fantastic literature • Ise monogatari • Genji monogatari • Sarayashiki • Morishima Chūryō • Baba Bunkō • Intertextuality • Book indexes • Kabuki • Gender dynamics • Premodern Japanese literature • Nō theatre • Layers of narration in intertextuality • Utatane • Waka • Nun Abutsu • Tsuruya Nanboku IV • Female enlightenment • Nihon ryōiki • Chinese novels • Sūtras • Mythologies • Zen • Metatextuality • Roland Barthes • Sarashina nikki • Kokin wakashū • Text • Classical Chinese literature • Re-interpretation • Shinkokinshū • Katsura Bunji I • Court Diary • Kawara-no-in • Fujiwara no Shunzei (Toshinari) • Yomihon • Commentaries • Inner scriptures • Buddhism • Ki no Tsurayuki, Kagerō nikki • San’yūtei Enchō • Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie) • Outer writings

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