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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463001103321

Autore

Emmerich Michael

Titolo

The tale of Genji : translation, canonization, and world literature / / Michael Emmerich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-231-53442-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Disciplina

895.6314

Soggetti

Japanese literature - Heian period, 794-1185 - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- Introduction: Replacing the Text -- Part I. Ninety-Nine Years in the Life of an Image -- Touchstone 1. Reimagining the Canon -- Chapter 1. A Gōkan Is a Gōkan Is a Gōkan -- Chapter 2. Reading Higashiyama -- Chapter 3. Turning a New Page -- Part II. In Medias Res -- Touchstone 2. The Triangle -- Chapter 4. The History of a Romance -- Chapter 5. From the World to the Nation -- Chapter 6. " Genji monogatari: Translation and Original" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he demonstrates how translations and the global circulation of discourse they inspired turned The Tale of Genji into a widely read classic, reframing our understanding of its significance and influence and of the processes that have canonized the text.Emmerich begins with an analysis of the lavishly produced best seller Nise Murasaki inaka Genji (A Fraudulent Murasaki's Bumpkin Genji, 1829-1842), an adaptation of Genji written and designed by Ryutei Tanehiko, with pictures by the great print artist Utagawa Kunisada. He argues that this work introduced Genji to a popular Japanese audience and created a new mode of reading. He then considers movable-type editions of Inaka Genji from 1888 to 1928, connecting trends in print technology and publishing to larger developments in national literature and showing how the one-time best



seller became obsolete. The study subsequently traces Genji's reemergence as a classic on a global scale, following its acceptance into the canon of world literature before the text gained popularity in Japan. It concludes with Genji's becoming a "national classic" during World War II and reviews an important postwar challenge to reading the work after it attained this status. Through his sustained critique, Emmerich upends scholarship on Japan's preeminent classic while remaking theories of world literature, continuity, and community.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910420926203321

Autore

Shan Yafeng

Titolo

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics / / by Yafeng Shan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-50617-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, , 2214-7942 ; ; 320

Disciplina

575.109

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Science - History

Knowledge, Theory of

Philosophy of Science

History of Science

Epistemology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- Part I. History -- 2. Mendel’s Pisum Revisited -- 3. De Vries’ Mendelism Reassessed -- 4. Weldon’s Choice Reconsidered -- Part II. Integrated HPS -- 5. Exemplarising the Origin of Genetics -- 6. A Functional Account of the Progress in Early Genetics -- 7. The Problem of the Long Neglect Revisited: An Exemplar-based Explanation -- Part III. Philosophy -- 8. A New Mode of Conceptual Continuity -- 9. The Gap Problem in Hypothetico-Deductivism -- 10. Promisingness in



Theory Choice.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an integrated historical and philosophical examination of the origin of genetics. The author contends that an integrated HPS analysis helps us to have a better understanding of the history of genetics, and sheds light on some general issues in the philosophy of science. This book consists of three parts. It begins with historical problems, revisiting the significance of the work of Mendel, de Vries, and Weldon. Then it turns to integrated HPS problems, developing an exemplar-based analysis of the development and the progress in early genetics. Finally, it discusses philosophical problems: conceptual change, evidence, and theory choice. Part I lays out a new historiography, serving as a basis for the discussions in part II and part III. Part II introduces a new integrated HPS method to analyse and interpret the historiography in Part I and to re-examine the philosophical issues in Part III. Part III develops new philosophical accounts which will in turn make a better sense of the history of scientific practice more generally. This book provides a practical defence of integrated HPS: the best way to defend integrated HPS is to do it.