Wednesday 4-6 pm 412 Kent, x5033
Classroom: Kress Room, Starr Library 917 IAB, x2591
Course description: A seminar exploring the nature and implications of the writing systems of East Asia (Chinese characters, Japanese syllabaries, and the Korean alphabet) in historical context. Issues will include: the origin of writing, calligraphy and the material practice of writing, literacy and orality, the gendering of writing, technologies and cultures of print, modern writing reform and national identity, and the computerization of writing.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
1) regular attendance and active participation in the weekly discussion of common readings
2) responsibility for the organization and conduct of specific seminar sessions
3) a final research paper of journal-article length
BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE:
These titles have been ordered by the Columbia University Bookstore; they will also be available on reserve.
Florian Coulmas, The Writing Systems of the World (Basil Blackwell, 1988). Paper (1991), $19.95.
Walter Ong, Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the World (Routledge, 1982). Paper, $13.95.
Geoffrey Sampson, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (Stanford University Press, 1985). Paper, $11.95.
John DeFrancis, Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems (University of Hawaii Press, 1989). Hardback, $27.50.
WEEKLY SYLLABUS:
#1. Sept. 6: INTRODUCTION
[An introduction to the rationale, structure, and requirements of the seminar]
#2. Sept. 13: WHAT IS WRITING?
Florian Coulmas, The Writing Systems of the World (Blackwell, 1989), chs 1-3, 14 [61 pp]. Available at bookstore. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: in process
Eric A. Havelock, "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet." Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 5 (December, 1987), 4 pp. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Suzuki, Tadao, "Writing is Not Language, or is it?" Journal of Pragmatics, 1:4 (1977), pp. 407-419. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Johnson, Barbara. "Writing." In Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, eds., Critical Terms for Literary Study (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990), pp. 39-49. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans Gayatri Spivak (The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1976), pp. 30-44, 74-93, 295-302. COLLEGE RESERVES: P105 .D5313 1976. Also LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVE. In addition, a copy of these pages will be placed on the Smith reserve shelf. NOTE: This is just to give us a taste of the issues raised by this difficult work, to which we will be returning in week #8.
RECOMMENDED: Crystal, David. "The medium of language: writing and reading," The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Cambridge University Press, 1987), chs. 5-6 (pp. 177-225). BUTLER REF: R403 C889. Also BARNARD REF: P29 .C64 1987 In addition, a copy of these pages will be placed on the Smith reserve shelf.
IF POSSIBLE (and definitely before our meeting on Sept. 20) VISIT THE EXHIBITION "The Alphabet in History and Imagination," at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Butler. It will continue through Tuesday, Oct. 3.
OTHER RELEVANT ITEMS ON RESERVE:
Sampson, Geoffrey. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction. Stanford University Press, 1985. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: ON ORDER On order at bookstore.
DeFrancis, John. Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems. University of Hawaii Press, 1989. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: P211 .D36 1989 [Also COLLEGE RESERVES] On order at bookstore.
Harris, Roy. The Origin of Writing. LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court,
1986. BUTLER STACKS P211 .H35 1986 [Not on reserve: Smith has the Butler
copy.]
#3. Sept. 20: ORIGINS OF WRITING OUTSIDE OF EAST ASIA
Coulmas, The Writing Systems of the World, chs. 4-5, 7-10 [99 pp].
Wayne Senner, ed., The Origins of Writing (University of Nebraska Press, 1989), chs. 2 (Denise Schmandt-Besserat, "Two Precursors of Writing: Plain and Complex Tokens") and 12 (Floyd Lounsbury, "The Ancient Writing of Middle America"). [50 pp.] COLLEGE RESERVE: P211 .O75 1989
OTHER RELEVANT ITEMS ON RESERVE:
Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet. Univ. of California Press / British Museum, 1990. COLLEGE RESERVE: P211 .R37 1990
Senner, Wayne M., ed. The Origins of Writing. University of Nebraska Press, 1989. COLLEGE RESERVE: P211 .O75 1989
Diringer, David. The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind. 3rd edition, in 2 vols. London: Hutchinson, 1968. COLLEGE RESERVE: P211 .D53 1968
Gelb, Ignace J. A Study of Writing. Rev. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. COLLEGE RESERVE: P211 .G37 1963a
Gaur, Albertine. History of Writing. London: British Library,
1984. American edition, Scribner's, 1985. COLLEGE RESERVE: P211 .G38 1987g
#4. Sept. 27: ORIGINS OF CHINESE WRITING
VISITING DISCUSSANT: Prof. Robert Hymes
COMMON READINGS:
Coulmas, The Writing Systems of the World, ch. 6. [46 pp].
William Boltz, "Early Chinese Writing," World Archaeology 17, no. 3 (1986), pp. 420-36. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
William Boltz, The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System (American Oriental Society, 1994), "Introduction" (pp. 3-15). This book is on East Asian Reserve, but two xerox copies of this short section will be placed on the SMITH SHELF.
Keightley, David N. "The Origins of Writing in China: Scripts and Cultural Contexts." In Wayne M. Senner, ed. The Origins of Writing (University of Nebraska Press, 1989), pp. 171-202. COLLEGE RESERVE: P211 .O75 1989 Also in STARR XEROX FOLDER.
MATERIALS FOR DISCUSSION LEADERS TO CONSULT:
Boltz, William. The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System (American Oriental Society, 1994). EAST ASIAN RESERVE. (This is a brand new book that treats the topic of the week head-on, and should probably be your key source; only the introduction has been assigned for common reading.)
Chang, K. C. "Writing as the Path to Authority," ch. 5 of Art, Myth, and Ritual (Harvard Univ. Press, 1983), pp. 81-94.
Ho, Ping-ti, The Cradle of the East (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong and Univ. of Chicago Press, 1975), ch. VI: "Numerals, Ordinals, Script, Language." This argues that pre-Chou pottery markings constitute the origins of writing in China. For a review of the book as a whole by David Keightley, see Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 37/2 (De. 1977), pp. 381-411.
Keightley, David N. Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China. University of California Press, 1978. EAST ASIAN RESERVES: DS744 .K44
Keightly, David. "'Reding' and 'Riting': The Origins and Endurance of
the Sacred in Neolithic and Bronze-Age China." Unpublished paper, delivered
at Stanford University as the Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Lecture, Feb. 28, 1995.
[Smith will provide copy.]
#5. Oct. 4: THE JAPANESE SYLLABARIES
VISITING DISCUSSANT: Prof. Haruo Shirane
COMMON READINGS:
Coulmas, The Writing Systems of the World, pp. 122-136.
Christopher Seeley, A History of Writing in Japan (Brill, 1991), chs. 4, 5, 7. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PL545 .S35 1991 [In addition, one or two xerox copies of the assigned chapters will be placed on the Smith shelf.]
A. E. Backhouse, "Aspects of the Graphological Structure of Japanese." Visible Language 18:3 (Summer 1984), pp. 219-228.
Thomas Lamarre, "Writing Doubled Over, Broken: Provisional Names, Acrostic Poems, and the Perpetual Contest of Doubles in Heian Japan," positions, 2/2 (Fall 1994), pp. 250-73.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS FOR DISCUSSION LEADERS TO CONSULT:
Seeley, A History of Writing in Japan, chs. 2, 3.
Gutzwiller, Andrea. "Hearing with one's eyes, seeing with one's ears? Understanding Japanese Homonyms." Journal of Pragmatics, 3:1, 1979. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Paradis, Michel. Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Japanese Writing System. Orlando, Fla.: Academic Press, 1985. EAST ASIAN: RC394.W6 P37 1985 [Smith has library copy.]
Seeley, Christopher. "The Standing of 'Gyosotai' as the Basis of Script Education in the Edo Period." Japan Forum 3/1 (April 1991), pp. 115-123. STARR RESERVE FOLDER.
SPECIAL REPORT BY SHEILA FILAN:
Chieko Ariga, "The Playful Gloss: Rubi in Japanese Literature." Monumenta
Nipponica 44/3 (Autumn 1989), pp. 309-335. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
#6. Oct. 11: THE INVENTION OF THE KOREAN ALPHABET
VISITING DISCUSSANT: Prof. Gari Ledyard
COMMON READINGS:
Gari Ledyard, "The International Linguistic Background of the 'Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People'." In Young-Hey Kim-Renaud, ed., The Korean Alphabet: History and Structure (University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming 1995). STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Gari Ledyard, "The Korean Language Reform of 1446: The Origin, Background, and Early History of the Korean Alphabet" (PhD Diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1966), pp. 21-57 ("Writing in Korea Prior to the Invention of the Alphabet") and 99-114 ("The Anti-Alphabet Memorial of Ch'oe Malli"). EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PL911 .L47 1966a [In addition, we will try to place one or two xerox copies of the assigned sections on the Smith shelf.]
William C. Hannas, "Korean Views on Writing Reform," in Victor Mair, ed., Schriftfestschrift: Essays on Writing and Language in Honor of John DeFrancis on His Eightieth Birthday (Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 27; Dept. of Oriental Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania, August 1991). pp. 85-94. TWO XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS FOR DISCUSSION LEADERS TO CONSULT:
Gari Keith Ledyard. "The Korean Language Reform of 1446: The Origin, Background, and Early History of the Korean Alphabet." 473 pp. PhD Diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1966. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PL911 .L47 1966a
Geoffrey Sampson, "A Featural System: Korean Han'gul," in Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (Stanford University Press, 1985), pp. 120-144. LIBRARY SERVICE P211 .S25
Korean National Commission for UNESCO, ed. The Korean Langauge.
Seoul: The Si-sa-yong-o-sa Publishers, and Arch Cape, Oregon: Pace International
Research, 1983. Includes: Lee Ki-moon, "Foundations of Hunmin Chongum";
Kim Jin-p'yong, "The Letterforms of Han'gul"; Kim Yun-gyong, "Chu Si-gyong
and Modernization of Han'gul"; Marshall R. Pihl, Jr., "The Alphabet of
East Asia"; Kim Hyong-gyu, "Chinese Characters and the Korean Language";
and Adrian Buzo, "An Introduction to Early Korean Writing Systems". EAST
ASIAN: PL908 .K67 1983
#7. Oct. 18: ORALITY AND LITERACY
VISITING DISCUSSANTS: Paul Rouzer (Chinese poetry) and David Bialock (Heike monogatari)
COMMON READINGS:
RE-READ: Coulmas, The Writing Systems of the World, pp. 8-11.
Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy--The Technologizing of the Word (Methuen, 1982), complete. Paperback available at Columbia University Bookstore.
COLLEGE RESERVES: P35 .O5 1982
Jack Goody and Ian Watt, "The Consequences of Literacy," Comparative Studies in Society and History, v. 5 (1962-3), pp. 304-345. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
David R. Olson, The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. xiii-19. XEROX COPIES OF ASSIGNED PAGES ON SMITH SHELF, but you are urged to look through the entire book, on COLLEGE RESERVE: P211 .O53 1994]
Brian Street, Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993), Introduction (about 15 pp); XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
OPTIONAL: Walter D. Mignolo, "Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations," in Elizabeth Hill Boone, and Walter D. Mignolo, eds., Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (Duke University Press, 1994), pp. 293-313. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS FOR DISCUSSION LEADERS TO CONSULT:
Finnegan, Ruth. "Literacy and Non-Literacy: The Great Divide?--Some Comments on the Significance of 'Literature' in Non-Literate Cultures." In Robin Horton and Ruth Finnegan, eds., Modes of Thought--Essays on Thinking in Western and Non-Western Societies (London: Faber and Faber. 1973), pp. 112-144. STARR RESERVE FOLDER
Gardner, Daniel K. "Modes of Thinking and Modes of Discourse in the Sung: Some Thoughts on the Yü-lu ('Recorded Conversations') Texts." Journal of Asian Studies, 50/3 (August 1991): 574-603. STARR RESERVE FOLDER
Goody, Jack. The Interface between the Written and the Oral. Series: Studies in literacy, the family, culture, and the state. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. COLLEGE RESERVE: P211 .G66 1987
Goody, Jack. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. [COLLEGE RESERVE]: Z40 .G66 1986
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy--The Making of Typographic Man. University of Toronto Press, 1962. COLLEGE RESERVES: 655 M226
Miyoshi, Masao. Off Center (Harvard University Press, 1991),
"Orality/Literacy and Speech/Writing" (pp. 50-56) and "Thinking Aloud in
Japan" (pp. ). [EAST ASIAN RESERVE]
#8. Oct. 25: THE "IDEOGRAPHIC MYTH": THE DEBATE OVER CHINESE WRITING
PAPER TOPIC STATEMENTS:
Prepare a 2-3 page statement of your proposed paper topic, together with relevant bibliography, make three copies of it, and place them in the folders that will be ready on the Smith shelf in Starr Library before noon, Tuesday, Oct. 24. If you are off-campus, you can fax your proposal to EALAC (678-8629) by this deadline, and we will make copies and put them on the shelf for you.
You are then asked to read all of the paper proposals, and to write out comments and suggestions for each one on separate pieces of paper that can then be handed directly to the writers of each proposal after class.
COMMON READINGS:
Ernest Fenollosa, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, ed. Ezra Pound (San Francisco: City Lights, 1936). 45 pp. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PN1055 .F4 1936.
John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (University of Hawaii Press, 1984), pp. 84-88. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PL1171 .D38 1984 [This short section is an account of the Creel-Boodberg debate.]
J. Marshall Unger, "The Very Idea: The Notion of Ideogram in China and Japan," Monumenta Nipponica 45/4 (Winter 1990), pp. 391-411. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Chad Hansen, "Chinese Ideographs and Western Ideas," Journal of Asian Studies 52/2 (May 1993), pp. 373-99. See also Marshall Unger's criticism in "Communications to the editor," JAS 52/4 (November 1993): 949-54, and Hansen's reply in the same issue, 954-957. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Geoffrey Sampson, "Chinese Script and the Diversity of Writing Systems," Linguistics, 32/1 (1994), pp. 117 ff, and rejoinder to same by J. Marshall Unger and John DeFrancis, 32/3 (1994), 549 ff. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
Victor Mair, "Buddhism and the Rise of the Written Vernacular in East Asia: The Making of National Languages," Journal of Asian Studies 53/3 (August 1994), pp. 707-751. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS FOR DISCUSSION LEADERS TO CONSULT:
RE-READ: Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans Gayatri Spivak (The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1976), pp. 30-44, 74-93, 295-302. COLLEGE RESERVES: P105 .D5313 1976. Also LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVE.
Zhang, Longxi. The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East
and West. Duke University Press, 1992. See esp. ch. 1, "The Debasement
of Writing," an expanded version of his earlier article, "The Tao and the
Logos: Notes on Derrida's Critique of Logocentrism," Critical Inquiry,
March 1985, pp. 384-98.
#9. Nov. 1: BRUSH AND PAPER: THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF EAST ASIAN WRITING.
VISITING DISCUSSANTS: Prof. David Sensabaugh, with John Carpenter
INTRODUCTION BY WAY OF XU BING'S "A Book from the Sky":
Since Xu Bing will be giving his talk the day after this meeting (Thursday, Nov. 2, 4:10 pm, Kent 413), I thought it would be useful to have a brief discussion of the work that made him famous, "A Book from the Sky," which in fact raises important issues in calligraphy. Please read the packet of articles from Public Culture, of which two copies will be placed on the Smith shelf. [The articles in question are: Janelle S. Taylor, "Non-Sense in Context: Xu Bing's Art and Its Publics," Public Culture, 5/2 (Winter 1993), pp. 317-327; Charles Stone, "Xu Bing and the Printed Word," and series of three follow-up responses by Charles Stone, Wu Hung, and Tamara Hamlish, Public Culture, 6/2 (Winter 1994), pp. 407-423.]
COMMON READINGS:
Jean Francois Billeter, The Chinese Art of Writing (Rizzoli, 1990), Chs. 2-3 (pp. 27-44, 45-84). EAST ASIAN RESERVE: NK3634 .A2 B54 1990
Ledderose, Lothar, "Chinese Calligraphy: Its Aesthetic and Social Functions," Orientations, 17/10 (October 1986), pp. 35-50. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
Lothar Ledderose, Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy (Princeton Univ. Press, 1979), pp. 3-44. EAST ASIAN [RESERVE]: NK3634 .A2 L43. Also, copies of the assigned pages will be placed on the Smith Shelf.
Tsien, Tsuen-hsuin, Written on Bamboo and Silk; The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions (University of Chicago Press, 1962), pp. 131-178; also recommend reading pp. 90-130. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: Z45 .T85
Stephen Little, "Chinese Calligraphy," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1987, pp. 373-391. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
INDIVIDUAL REPORTS: Prepare 1-sheet handout (14 cc), 5-minute report.
ANNE COMMONS: John Hay, "The Human Body as a Microcosmic Source of Macrocosmic Values in Calligraphy," in Susan Bush and Christian Murck, eds., Theories of the Arts in China (Princeton Univ. Press, 1983), pp. 74-102. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
SUSAN GREIG: John Hay, "Surface and the Chinese Painter: The Discovery of Surface," Archives of Asian Art, vol. 38 (1985), pp. 95-123. CHECK THE ORIGINAL, OR BORROW COPY FROM SUSAN.
LIDY CHU: Richard Kraus, Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy (University of California Press, 1991). FINE ARTS: ND1044 K86 [on shelf]
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS FOR DISCUSSION LEADERS TO CONSULT:
Gaur, Albertine. Writing Materials of the East. London: British Library, 1979. RARE BOOK GRAPHIC ARTS Z45 .G38
Goldberg, Jonathan. Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1990. COLLEGE RESERVE: Z115.E5 G64 1990
Tsien, Tsuen-hsuin, "Paper and Printing." Joseph Needham, Science
and Civilization in China, vol. 5, pt. 1. Cambridge University Press,
1985. EAST ASIAN REFERENCE: DS721 .N39 v. 5 pt. 1 [please place back on
shelf when finished]
#10. Nov. 8: CALLIGRAPHY
VISITING DISCUSSANTS: John Carpenter, Prof. Sensabaugh, Cheryl Crowley.
COMMON READINGS:
Cecil H. Uyehara, "The Rite of Japanese Calligraphy and the Modern Age," Oriental Art, 33/2 (Summer 1987, pp. 174-182). XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
Carpenter, John T. "Authority and Conformity in Twelfth-Century Japanese Court Calligraphy," Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan, No. 39 (1994), pp. 60-80. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Ojio Yûshô, "Aesthetic Elements of the Line," in Makoto Ueda, Literary and Art Theories in Japan (The Press of Western Reserve Univ., 19__), pp. 173-185. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
Stephen Addiss, "Haiga: The Haiku-Painting Tradition," Orientations, 26/2 (February 1995), pp. 28-37. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS FOR DISCUSSION LEADERS TO CONSULT:
Mote, Frederick W., and Hung-lam Chu. Calligraphy and the East Asian
Book. Boston and Shaftesbury: Shambala Publications, 1988. EAST ASIAN
RESERVE: NK3634 .A2 M67 1989
#11. Nov. 15: PRINTING AND THE CULTURE OF PRINT IN EAST ASIA
COMMON READINGS:
Roger Chartier, "Frenchness in the History of the Book: From the History of Publishing to the History of Reading," American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, vol. 97 pt. 2 (1987), pp. 299-329. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
Thomas Francis Carter, The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward (1st ed., 1925; 2nd ed., revised by L. Carrington Goodrich, New York: The Ronald Press, 1955), pp. 31-118, 211-44. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: Z186 .C5 C3 1955a
Henry D. Smith II, "The History of the Book in Edo and Paris," in James McClain, John Merriman, and Ugawa Kaoru, eds., Edo and Paris: The State, Political Power, and Urban Life in Two Early-Modern Societies (Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. 332-352. STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Richard Rubinger, "From 'Dark Corners' into 'the Light': Literacy Studies in Modern Japan," History of Education Quarterly, 30/4 (Winter 1990), 601-612. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
Kim Won-Yong, Early Movable Type in Korea, Publication of the National Museum of Korea, Series A, Vol. I (Seoul: Eul-Yu Publishing, 1954), pp. 5-12. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
SPECIAL REPORTS:
ANN SATOH: Susan Cherniack, "Book Culture and Textual Transmission in Sung China," HJAS 54:1 (1994), pp. 5-126.
RENEE KASHUBA: Print culture in traditional Korea.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS FOR DISCUSSION LEADERS TO CONSULT:
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin. "Paper and Printing." Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China, vol. 5, pt. 1. Cambridge University Press, 1985. EAST ASIAN REFERENCE: DS721 .N39 v. 5 pt. 1 [please place back on shelf when finished]
Denis Twitchett, Printing and Publishing in Medieval China. New York: Frederic C. Beil, 1983. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: Z186 .C5 T84 1983b
Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 1979. One-volume paperback edition: COLLEGE RESERVE: Z124 .E37 1985g [Also on BARNARD RESERVE.]
Henri Jean Martin, The History and Power of Writing (University of Chicago Press, 1994), chs. 5-9. COLLEGE RESERVE: Z40 .M3713 1994
Febvre, Lucien, and Martin, Henri-Jean. The Coming of the Book--The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800. New Left Books, 1976. COLLEGE RESERVE: Z4 .F413 1976
Chartier, Roger. The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France. (Trans. Lydia Cochrane.) Princeton University Press. 1987. BARNARD RESERVES: Z1003.5 .F7 C47 1987
Chartier, Roger, ed. The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of
Print in Early Modern Europe. Princeton University Press. 1989. COLLEGE
RESERVE: Z124 .U83 1989g
#12. Nov. 22: WRITING REFORM AND THE NATION-STATE IN MODERN EAST ASIA
[This session was cancelled, and the topic combined with #14]
Coulmas, The Writing Systems of the World, chs. 12-13 [39 pp].
Victor Mair, "The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese." Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 1 (February 1986), 31 pp. EAST ASIAN RESERVE:
Karatani, Kojin, "Nationalism and Ecriture." [Mss English translation by Indra Levy; source of original unclear.] STARR XEROX FOLDER.
Christopher Seeley, A history of writing in Japan (Brill, 1991), chs. 8-9. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PL545 .S35 1991
Twine, Nanette. Language and the Modern State: The Reform of Written
Japanese. Routledge, 1991. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PL525.6 .T95 1991
[THANKSGIVING BREAK]
#13. Nov. 29: PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF PAPER TOPICS
Each member of the seminar must submit BY 10 AM Tuesday, Nov. 28 (three
copies, in Smith's EALAC mailbox) a detailed description (3-4 pp. double-spaced)
of the proposed paper topic, plus a full annotated bibliography. Be sure
to include a working title for your paper. Two sets of the proposals
will be placed on the Smith shelf in Starr, and you should read them closely,
writing down your reactions and suggestions on a separate piece of paper
for each proposal, to be handed in after class.
#14. Dec. 6:
A) WRITING REFORM AND THE NATION-STATE IN MODERN EAST ASIA
COMMON READINGS:
Coulmas, The Writing Systems of the World, chs. 13 [23 pp].
Christopher Seeley, A history of writing in Japan (Brill, 1991), chs. 8-9 (pp. 136-87). EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PL545 .S35 1991
Karatani, Kojin, "Nationalism and Ecriture." [Mss English translation by Indra Levy; source of original unclear.] STARR XEROX FOLDER.
B) COMPUTERS AND THE DEMATERIALIZATION OF EAST ASIAN WRITING
Scott Bukatman, "Gibson's Typewriter," in Mark Dery, ed., Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture (Duke University Press, 1994), pp. 71-89. XEROX COPIES ON SMITH SHELF.
Ishikawa Kyûyô, "Kaku koto no shûen--Waapuro to moji no yukue," in Moji no genzai, sho no genzai (Geijutsu shinbunsha, 1990), pp. 6-12. English translation on Smith reserve shelf.
OTHER RELEVANT ITEMS
Gottlieb, Nanette. "Language and Politics: The Reversal of Postwar Script Reform Policy in Japan." Journal of Asian Studies 53/4 (November 1994), pp. 1175-1198.
J. Marshall Unger, Computers and Japanese Literacy--Nihonzin no yomikaki noryoku to konpyuta. Sino-Platonic Papers; no. 6. Dept. of Oriental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1988. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PL524.5 .U54 1988g
Twine, Nanette. Language and the Modern State: The Reform of Written Japanese. Routledge, 1991. EAST ASIAN RESERVE: PL525.6 .T95 1991
Friedrich Kittler, Discourse Networks 1800/1900, trans. Michael Metteer (Stanford University Press, 1990). [Originally published as Aufschriebesysteme 1800/1900, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1987.] COLLEGE RESERVES (2 cc): PT345 .K5813 1990
Victor Mair, "The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese." Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 1 (February 1986), 31 pp. EAST ASIAN RESERVE:
J. Marshall Unger, The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan is Betting
Its Future on Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 1987).
EAST ASIAN RESERVE: QA76.85 .U54 1987
FINAL PAPER TOPICS, "History of East Asian Writing," Fall 1995:
Lidy Chu, "Linked Pearls: A View of Calligraphic and Poetic Theory in the Tang-Song Transition"
Anne Commons, "The Development of Kokuji"
Sheila Filan, "Writing and Ritual in the Era of 'Great Change' [Taika]"
Susan Greig, "Cognitive Processing of Kana and Kanji"
Karen Hwang, "Ecriture and Korean Nationalism"
Renee Kashuba, "Japanese Language Reform: Theoretical Perspectives"
David Lurie, "Beyond Transcription: Man'yô Writing and the 'Ideographic Myth"
Barbara Morrison, "Picture Storytelling: Etoki in Japan, Image and Text in Discourse"
Morihiro Satow, "Ashide and Jion-e in the Heike Nôkyô: Meta-representational Pictures in the Heian Period"
Ann Satoh, "Ogyû Sorai and Issues of Text"
Emi Shimokawa, "Katakana and Poetry: Miyazawa Kenji's 'Ame ni mo makezu'"
Alison Weeks, "Writing Writ Large: Chinese Script Reform and National
Identity in the Twentieth Century"