Japanese Hieroglossia : Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 February 2012 /
Robert, Jean-Noël
Japanese Hieroglossia : Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 February 2012 / Jean-Noël Robert. - Paris : Collège de France, 2013.
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At a very early stage, Japanese civilization 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.
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978-2-7226-0271-7
10.4000/books.cdf.3094 doi
Language & Linguistics
mystique
philologie
poésie bouddhique
religion
religion
philology
mysticism
Japanese literature
Japanese Hieroglossia : Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 February 2012 / Jean-Noël Robert. - Paris : Collège de France, 2013.
Ebook
At a very early stage, Japanese civilization 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.
OpenEdition Books License
978-2-7226-0271-7
10.4000/books.cdf.3094 doi
Language & Linguistics
mystique
philologie
poésie bouddhique
religion
religion
philology
mysticism
Japanese literature
