Voices of the Past : : The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse /

Voices of the Past : : The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse / / Naoki Sakai.

Toward the end of the seventeenth century, Naoki Sakai maintains, a radical change took place in Japanese discourse—the sudden emergence of multiple new possibilities of conceptualizing the world. In this brilliant and searching reinterpretation of the cultural history of the Tokugawa period, Sakai...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Sakai, Naoki,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 2 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Theoretical Preliminaries
  • Part I. Silence at the Center: Ito Jinsai and the Problems of Intertextuality
  • 1. Change in the Mode of Discursive Formation
  • 2. Ito Jinsai: The Text as the Human Body and the Human Body as the Text
  • 3.Textuality and Sociality: The Question of Praxis, Exteriority, and the Split in Enunciation
  • Part II: Frame Up: The Surplus of Signification and Tokugawa Literature
  • 4.The Enunciation and Nonverbal Texts
  • 5.Supplement
  • 6.Defamiliarization and Parody
  • Part III. Language, Body, and the Immediate: Phoneticism and the Ideology of the Identical
  • 7.The Problem of Translation
  • 8.Phoneticism and History
  • 9. The Politics of Choreography
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Japanese and Chinese Terms
  • Index

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