Textual Heritage

Locating Textual Practices Across Heritage and the Humanities

Edoardo Gerlini, Andrea Giolai (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781836951902 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the afterlives of textual traditions, primarily within East Asia, Textual Heritage highlights how textual practices offer a lens for understanding questions of canonization, embodiment, and circulation. In doing so, this volume advances a theory of “humanistic heritage studies” that mediates the overlap between literary and heritage studies.

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.

Edoardo Gerlini is Associate Professor of classical Japanese language and literature at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His recent publications include: “Textual Heritage Embodied: Entanglements of Tangible and Intangible in the Aoi no ue utaibon of the Hōshō School of Noh” (Studies in Japanese Literature and Culture, 2022) and “Textual Heritage and Digital Archives – The Case of the Hyakugo Archive in Kyoto” (Open Research Europe, 2023). He is also co-editor of the volume, Koten wa isan ka? (Bensei, 2021).

List of Figures

Introduction: Heritagizing Texts, Textualizing Heritage

Edoardo Gerlini and Andrea Giolai

Chapter 1. “Textual Heritage” as a Catalyst for Humanistic Heritage Studies? The What, Why, and How

Wiebke Denecke

Chapter 2. The Dislocated Text as Global Heritage: Canonization, Translation, and Circulation of Verlaine and “Chanson d’automne” between France and Japan

Isabelle Lavelle

Chapter 3. (Con)Textual Heritage and Bibliography

Wayne de Fremery

Chapter 4. Three Sketches for a Critical Approach to Textual Heritage in Japanese Court Music (Gagaku)

Andrea Giolai

Chapter 5. Textualization as Cultural Heritage: The Case of the Pyramid Texts

Emanuele. M. Ciampini and Francesca Iannarilli

Chapter 6. Heritage Discourses in Early Japan—Analyzing Strategies of Textual Appropriation in Poetic Anthologies of Eight and Ninth Century

Edoardo Gerlini

Chapter 7. Japanese Linked Verse (Renga)—Textual Heritage and Beyond

Heidi Buck-Albulet

Chapter 8. Topology and the Spatial Imaginary: Maps as Convergent Sites of Textual Heritage

Radu Leca

Chapter 9. Digital Strategies for the Decanonization of Textual Heritage

Franz Fischer

Chapter 10. Future Relations of Textual Heritage

David Harvey

Afterword: Textual Heritage: Intangible Heritage, Embodiment and Authenticity beyond “Text”

Natsuko Akagawa

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Heritage Studies
Zusatzinfo	19 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9781836951902 / 9781836951902
Zustand	Neuware