That Wonderful Composite Called Author

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27941-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture

Did East Asian literatures, ranging from bronze inscriptions to zazen treatises, lack a concept of authorship before their integration into classical modernity? The answer depends on how one defines the term author. Starting out with a critical review of recent theories of authorship, this edited volume distinguishes various author functions, which can be distributed among several individuals and need not be integrated into a single source of textual meaning. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literary traditions cover the whole spectrum from 'weak' composite to 'strong' individual forms and concepts of authorship. Divisions on this scale can be equated with gradual differences in the range of self-articulation. Contributors are Roland Altenburger, Alexander Beecroft, Marion Eggert, Simone Müller, Christian Schwermann, and Raji Steineck.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwermann, Christian

Steineck, Raji C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction
Raji C. Steineck and Christian Schwermann

Composite Authorship in Western Zhou Bronze Inscriptions: The Case of the “Tianwáng gui” Inscription
Christian Schwermann

Authorship in the Canon of Songs (Shi Jing)
Alexander Beecroft

The Compiler as the Narrator: Awareness of Authorship, Authorial Presence and Author Figurations in Japanese Imperial Anthologies, with a Special Focus on the Kokin wakashu
Simone Müller

Fluidity of Belonging and Creative Appropriation: Authorship and Translation in an Early Sinic Song (“Kongmudoha Ka”)
Marion Eggert

Appropriating Genius: Jin Shengtan’s Construction of Textual Authority and Authorship in his Commented Edition of Shuihu Zhuan (The Water Margin Saga)
Roland Altenburger

Enlightened Authorship: The Case of Dogen Kigen
Raji C. Steineck

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Schwermann, Ph.D. (2005), University of Bonn, is lecturer of Classical Chinese at that university. He has published chiefly on early Chinese literature, including a monograph on the concept of stupidity in ancient texts (“Dummheit” in altchinesischen Texten, Harrassowitz, 2011).

Raji C. Steineck, Ph.D. (2000), University of Bonn, is Professor of Japanology at the University of Zurich. He mainly works on the interrelation between symbolic configurations and ideational content in Japanese intellectual history, as in his new work on the Critique of Symbolic Forms (frommann-holzboog, 2014).