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Record Nr.

UNINA9910133541003321

Autore

Robert Jean-Noël

Titolo

Japanese Hieroglossia : inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday February 2, 2012 / / Jean-Noël Robert, translation by Liz Libbrecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collège de France, 2013

France : , : Collège de France, , 2013

ISBN

2-7226-0271-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (100 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France

Soggetti

Languages & Literatures

East Asian Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

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.