Textual Heritage: Locating Textual Practices Across Heritage and the Humanities (1) (Explorations in Heritage Studies)

By: Edoardo Gerlini and Andrea Giolai

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Synopsis: The relationship between texts and the field of cultural heritage remains ill-defined. Although scholarship has long recognized the importance of textual practices in mediating cultural identity and memory, the emphasis heritage studies places on authentic, material traces downplays the unique impact of their creative transmission and appropriation. Focusing on the afterlives of written artifacts and the re-use of their textual contents, primarily within East Asia, Textual Heritage highlights how textual practices offer a lens for understanding questions of canonization, embodiment, and circulation. Through case studies ranging from Japanese court music to digital editions, this volume advances a theory of “humanistic heritage studies” that better understands the overlap between literary and heritage studies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 336 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781836951919
Related ISBNs:: 9781836951902
Publisher:: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 10/01/25
Copyrighted By:: Edoardo Gerlini and Andrea Giolai
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Edoardo Gerlini
Edited by:: Andrea Giolai