tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91691680087061250332024-02-08T03:13:41.513-08:00Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of WritingDavid Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-67472954926311793272013-11-25T13:07:00.004-08:002013-11-25T13:08:03.453-08:00Missing full citations from p. 303 and p. 360On p. 303, n. 59, the citation to "Rabinovitch and Bradstock 2005" should correspond to the following entry that was omitted from the Bibliography:<br />
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Rabinovitch, Judith N., and Timothy Bradstock. 2005. <i>Dance of the Butterflies: Chinese Poetry from the Japanese Court Tradition</i>. Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Series.</blockquote>
Similarly, the citation to "Skjærvø 1996" on p. 360 was meant to point to this missing Bibliography entry:<br />
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Skjærvø, P. Oktor. 1996. Aramaic Scripts for Iranian Languages. In <i>The World’s Writing Systems</i>, ed. Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, 515-535. New York: Oxford University Press.</blockquote>
David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-54651377376315005212012-05-15T07:58:00.001-07:002012-07-13T07:24:18.577-07:00Clarification about DeFrancis and Unger's arguments about writingIn arguing that logography plays a central role in the history of writing, in general and in East Asia in particular, <i>Realms</i> opposes what I see as an over-emphasis on phonography by a number of scholars and theorists of writing, most prominently John DeFrancis and J. Marshall Unger. Our contrasting approaches will be apparent to anyone who compares our work, but I should have provided more detail about their limited acknowledgement of logography. I do not believe that it is inaccurate to say that they claim that "all writing is necessarily phonographic" (p. 41) or that they insist "on the inherently phonographic nature of all writing" (p. 363), but they do not see all writing as <i>exclusively</i> phonographic. I should have mentioned that, in writings by Unger, by DeFrancis in the 1990s, and in co-authored essays, they repeatedly concede that actual historical writing systems do incorporate some degree of logography. We differ profoundly on the extent and significance of that incorporation, but it is not fair to imply that they deny its existence outright.David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-42742953455986533772012-05-15T07:23:00.001-07:002012-05-15T07:37:00.551-07:00Chapter in recent edited volume on history of writingI have a chapter entitled "The Development of Writing in Japan" in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Shape-Script-Advanced-Research/dp/1934691429" target="_blank"><i>The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change</i></a> (ed. Stephen Houston, SAR Press, 2012). It summarizes several of the central arguments of <i>Realms</i>, especially those made in chapters 4 and 7.David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-30155284231575020642012-05-15T07:15:00.000-07:002012-05-15T07:15:55.393-07:00Correction on p. 427The correct title of Bender 2009 is "Performative Loci of the Imperial Edicts in Nara Japan, 749-70."David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-19502024730758047272012-05-11T12:19:00.000-07:002012-05-11T12:19:09.333-07:0037th Annual Lionel Trilling AwardI am more honored than I can say that <i>Realms</i> has been awarded the 37th annual <a href="http://www.college.columbia.edu/news/professors-mercer-lurie-win-van-doren-trilling-awards" target="_blank">Lionel Trilling Award</a> for best book by a Columbia College faculty member.David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-3518140373894139562012-05-11T12:16:00.005-07:002012-05-11T12:20:55.082-07:00Man'yoshu poem indexIn what I really hope turns out to be the worst error in <i>Realms</i>, I recently found to my horror that in preparing the index I missed the fact that the <i>Man'yoshu</i> poem number section is ordered by the page numbers of the references, which of course makes it completely useless. Click <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Edbl11/Realms-MYS-poem-index.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> for a link to a properly ordered index (pdf format) to replace the entry on pages 487-488.David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-68416871937973603562011-10-07T13:12:00.000-07:002011-10-07T13:16:30.816-07:00Dissertation appendicesBits and pieces of my 2001 PhD. dissertation are incorporated into the book, and in the few places where the dissertation contains a more detailed discussion there is a note to that effect, but the overall project has changed and expanded so much over the past ten years that I consider the dissertation to have been superseded in almost every respect. However, the two appendices contain concentrated information that is not available in the book, so I am making them available (unrevised) as supplements here.<br />
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<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Edbl11/Lurie-diss-appendix-A.pdf">Appendix A: The <i>Nihon shoki</i> on Writing's Introduction and Development</a><br />
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Edbl11/Lurie-diss-appendix-B.pdf">Appendix B: Notes on the So-called 'Remnant Texts of the Suiko Court'</a>David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-89698124471609202892011-10-07T12:47:00.000-07:002011-10-07T12:47:05.174-07:00Correction on p. 476The publisher of the <i>Rekishigaku jiten</i> in which Yoshie 2003a and 2003b appear is Kōbundō, not Shibundō.David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-66558816727029366232011-09-03T07:23:00.000-07:002011-09-03T07:23:57.249-07:00Table of contents for endnotes<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Edbl11/Lurie-Realms-Endnotelist.pdf">www.columbia.edu/~dbl11/Lurie-Realms-Endnotelist.pdf</a>David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-89580746294102059612011-09-03T07:22:00.000-07:002011-09-03T07:22:33.776-07:00Expanded table of contents<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Edbl11/Lurie-Realms-fullTOC.pdf">www.columbia.edu/~dbl11/Lurie-Realms-fullTOC.pdf</a>David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-68124083998299878202011-09-03T06:56:00.000-07:002011-09-03T07:25:39.365-07:00Correction on page 179In the middle of page 179, "intralingual acts of translation" should read "interlingual acts of translation." Better, the whole sentence should simply be: "But <i>kundoku</i> also differs from acts of translation, at least as they are commonly conceived."David Luriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14289879183298089720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9169168008706125033.post-25162912746945244152011-01-05T18:58:00.000-08:002011-01-05T19:00:54.064-08:00Amazon and Harvard University Asia Center listings<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674060652">http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674060652</a><br />
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