عنوان

The Many Scripts of the Chinese Scriptworld, the Epic of King Gesar, and World Literature

شماره

LA119367

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Many Scripts of the Chinese Scriptworld, the Epic of King Gesar, and World Literature

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Karen L. Thornber

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The idea of an East Asian cultural "bloc" united in no small part by the Chinese script has long been widely held; through the end of the Qing dynasty Chinese characters served as the scripta franca for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese intellectuals. Yet writing in East Asia has almost always involved more than Chinese characters and their offshoots. The purpose of this article is twofold. First is to introduce readers of world literature unfamiliar with East Asia to the wide variety of the region's languages and scripts. The second objective is to demonstrate that when we associate writing in China only with Chinese characters, as often has been the case, we overlook some of the region's, and the world's, most significant works of world literature. These include the twelfth-century Epic of King Gesar, a living epic which at twenty-five times the size of the Iliad is the world's longest. The idea of an East Asian cultural "bloc" united in no small part by the Chinese script has long been widely held; through the end of the Qing dynasty Chinese characters served as the scripta franca for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese intellectuals. Yet writing in East Asia has almost always involved more than Chinese characters and their offshoots. The purpose of this article is twofold. First is to introduce readers of world literature unfamiliar with East Asia to the wide variety of the region's languages and scripts. The second objective is to demonstrate that when we associate writing in China only with Chinese characters, as often has been the case, we overlook some of the region's, and the world's, most significant works of world literature. These include the twelfth-century Epic of King Gesar, a living epic which at twenty-five times the size of the Iliad is the world's longest. The idea of an East Asian cultural "bloc" united in no small part by the Chinese script has long been widely held; through the end of the Qing dynasty Chinese characters served as the scripta franca for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese intellectuals. Yet writing in East Asia has almost always involved more than Chinese characters and their offshoots. The purpose of this article is twofold. First is to introduce readers of world literature unfamiliar with East Asia to the wide variety of the region's languages and scripts. The second objective is to demonstrate that when we associate writing in China only with Chinese characters, as often has been the case, we overlook some of the region's, and the world's, most significant works of world literature. These include the twelfth-century Epic of King Gesar, a living epic which at twenty-five times the size of the Iliad is the world's longest. The idea of an East Asian cultural "bloc" united in no small part by the Chinese script has long been widely held; through the end of the Qing dynasty Chinese characters served as the scripta franca for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese intellectuals. Yet writing in East Asia has almost always involved more than Chinese characters and their offshoots. The purpose of this article is twofold. First is to introduce readers of world literature unfamiliar with East Asia to the wide variety of the region's languages and scripts. The second objective is to demonstrate that when we associate writing in China only with Chinese characters, as often has been the case, we overlook some of the region's, and the world's, most significant works of world literature. These include the twelfth-century Epic of King Gesar, a living epic which at twenty-five times the size of the Iliad is the world's longest.

تاريخ نشر

2016

توصيف ظاهري

212-225

عنوان

Journal of World Literature

شماره جلد

1/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2405-6480

اصطلاح موضوعی

Alai

اصطلاح موضوعی

Epic of King Gesar

اصطلاح موضوعی

Iliad

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mahabharata

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mongolia

اصطلاح موضوعی

Tibet

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Karen L. Thornber

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/24056480-00102006

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y