Cosmopolitan and vernacular in the world of Wen 文 : reading Sheldon Pollock from the sinographic cosmopolis
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Cosmopolitan and vernacular in the world of Wen 文 : reading Sheldon Pollock from the sinographic cosmopolis
（Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis / edited by Ross King, David Lurie, Marion Eggert, vol. 5）
Brill, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"The original conference that led to this volume was convened almost exactly a decade ago at the University of British Columbia: "Thinking about 'Cosmopolitan and Vernacular' in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: What Can We Learn from Sheldon Pollock?" (July 2-4, 2012)"--p. [ix]
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Description
Sheldon Pollock’s work on the history of literary cultures in the ‘Sanskrit Cosmopolis’ broke new ground in the theorization of historical processes of vernacularization and served as a wake-up call for comparative approaches to such processes in other translocal cultural formations. But are his characterizations of vernacularization in the Sinographic Sphere accurate, and do his ideas and framework allow us to speak of a ‘Sinographic Cosmopolis’? How do the special typology of sinographic writing and associated technologies of vernacular reading complicate comparisons between the Sankrit and Latinate cosmopoleis? Such are the questions tackled in this volume.
Contributors are Daehoe Ahn, Yufen Chang, Wiebke Denecke, Torquil Duthie, Marion Eggert, Greg Evon, Hoduk Hwang, John Jorgensen, Ross King, David Lurie, Alexey Lushchenko, Si Nae Park, John Phan, Mareshi Saito, and S. William Wells.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Editorial Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Introduction—Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Sinographic Cosmopolis and Beyond: Traditional East Asian Literary Cultures in Global Perspective
Ross King
1 The Vernacular in the World of Wen: Sheldon Pollock’s Model in East Asia?
David B. Lurie
2 Pollock’s Comparative Wake-Up Call: Towards the Historical and Conceptual Modeling of Premodern Literary Cultures and Institutions
Wiebke Denecke
3 Vernacularizing the Cosmopolitan? Regional Sanskrits, “Stuffed Latin,” “Variant Sinitic,” and the Problem of Hybridity
Ross King
part 1: Beginnings: Origins and Early Centuries of the Sinographic Cosmopolis
4 The Space of Cultivated Speech (yayan 雅言): Writing and Language in the Sinographic Sphere
Saitō Mareshi
5 Waka Poetry as a Cosmopolitan Vernacular in Early Japan
Torquil Duthie
part 2: Medieval and Early Modern Cases from China, Japan, and Vietnam
6 Secondary Cosmopolitan Language(s): Non-literary Chinese and Its Use in Pre-modern Korea
John Jorgensen
7 Documents and Fiction in Three Early Edo Biographies of Hideyoshi: Translations to and from Kanbun
Alexy Lushchenko
8 A Crisis in the Cosmopolitan: Colonization and the Promotion of the Vernacular in an Early-Twentieth-Century Vietnamese Script Experiment
John D. Phan
9 Traveling Civilization: The Sinographic Translational Network and Colonial Vietnam’s Modern Lexicon Building, 1890s‒1910s
Yufen Chang
part 3: The Special Case of Korea: From Late Chosŏn to Colonial Chōsen
10 Literary Sinitic and Korea’s Hierarchy of Inscriptional Practice
W. Scott Wells
11 Script Apartheid and Literary Production in Pre-modern Korea: Framing Pollock’s Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in East Asia
Gregory N. Evon
12 Prolegomena to a Study of “Chosŏn‐Style Hanmun” 朝鮮式漢文
Ross King
13 The Lexical Vernacularity of the Tongp’ae naksong and the Boundaries of Korean Vernacular Literature
Si Nae Park
14 Language Use and Language Discourse in Pak Chiwŏn’s Yŏrha ilgi
Marion Eggert
15 Late Chosŏn Korean Intellectual Discourse on the Discrepancy between Speech and Writing
Ahn Daehoe
16 The Geopolitics of Vernacularity and Sinographs: The Making of Bilingual Dictionaries in Modern Korea and the Shift from Sinographic Cosmopolis to “Sinographic Mediapolis”
Hwang Hoduk
Index of Named Individuals
Index of Terms
Index of Texts Cited
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