Japanese Hieroglossia : : inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday February 2, 2012 / / Jean-Noël Robert, translation by Liz Libbrecht.
At a very early stage, Japanese civilisation asserted itself in a relationship of “linguistic competition” with Chinese, in both the religious, the literary, and the intellectual spheres. This cultural symbiosis linked to the shaping of a language, that Jean-Noël Robert has called hieroglossia , was...
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Superior document: | Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France |
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Place / Publishing House: | France : : Collège de France,, 2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (100 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Summary: | At a very early stage, Japanese civilisation asserted itself in a relationship of “linguistic competition” with Chinese, in both the religious, the literary, and the intellectual spheres. This cultural symbiosis linked to the shaping of a language, that Jean-Noël Robert has called hieroglossia , was the primary source of the speech that Yasunari Kawabata delivered upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968: By drawing on Japanese Buddhist poetry, he placed himself in the Zen tradition and the mysticism of the language of the Shingon school, according to which there is a direct link between linguistic signs and the substance of things. |
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ISBN: | 2722602717 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jean-Noël Robert, translation by Liz Libbrecht. |