November 21-22, 2008
The symposium seeks to explore the connection between a variety of Japanese literary works (waka, Buddhist tales, diaries, and avant-garde poetry) and their materiality as manuscripts, handscrolls, albums, and illustrated books. One underlying assumption is that the close study of literary artifacts reveals something about the texts that cannot be understood in reproduction. In one sense this approach emphasizes the importance of primary materials and the belief that encounters with original works can lead to new insights into the texts themselves.
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