That Wonderful Composite Called Author - Authorship in East Asian Literatures from the Beginnings to the Seventeenth Century

Did East Asian literatures lack a concept of authorship before their integration into classical modernity? Distinguishing various author functions, which can be distributed among several individuals, this edited volume covers the whole spectrum from composite to individual forms of authorship.

About the author

Christian Schwermann, Ph.D. (2005), University of Bonn, is lecturer of Classical Chinese at that university. He has published chiefly on early Chinese literature, including a monograph on the concept of stupidity in ancient texts ("Dummheit" in altchinesischen Texten, Harrassowitz, 2011).

Raji C. Steineck, Ph.D. (2000), University of Bonn, is Professor of Japanology at the University of Zurich. He mainly works on the interrelation between symbolic configurations and ideational content in Japanese intellectual history, as in his new work on the Critique of Symbolic Forms (frommann-holzboog, 2014).

Product details

• Assisted by: Christian Schwermann (Editor), Raji C Steineck (Editor), Raji C. Steineck (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2014
• EAN: 9789004279414
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27941-4
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: East Asian Comparative Literat
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies