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 FiguresIntroduction: Heritagizing Texts, Textualizing HeritageEdoardo Gerlini and Andrea GiolaiChapter 1. “Textual Heritage” as a Catalyst for Humanistic Heritage Studies? The What, Why, and HowWiebke DeneckeChapter 2. The Dislocated Text as Global Heritage: Canonization, Translation, and Circulation of Verlaine and “Chanson d’automne” between France and JapanIsabelle LavelleChapter 3. (Con)Textual Heritage and BibliographyWayne de FremeryChapter 4. Three Sketches for a Critical Approach to Textual Heritage in Japanese Court Music (Gagaku)Andrea GiolaiChapter 5. Textualization as Cultural Heritage: The Case of the Pyramid TextsEmanuele. M. Ciampini and Francesca IannarilliChapter 6. Heritage Discourses in Early Japan—Analyzing Strategies of Textual Appropriation in Poetic Anthologies of Eight and Ninth CenturyEdoardo GerliniChapter 7. Japanese Linked Verse (Renga)—Textual Heritage and BeyondHeidi Buck-AlbuletChapter 8. Topology and the Spatial Imaginary: Maps as Convergent Sites of Textual HeritageRadu LecaChapter 9. Digital Strategies for the Decanonization of Textual HeritageFranz FischerChapter 10. Future Relations of Textual HeritageDavid HarveyAfterword: Textual Heritage: Intangible Heritage, Embodiment and Authenticity beyond “Text”Natsuko AkagawaIndex

“This is potentially a groundbreaking publication as it is the first sustained attempt to promote the idea of ‘textual heritage’ as a separate category of heritage. It has long been felt that texts and their immense importance for cultural identities and long-term cultural memory have been left out of heritage studies as they do not belong to tangible nor intangible heritage as defined and practised by UNESCO.” • Lars Boje Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark

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 FiguresIntroduction: Heritagizing Texts, Textualizing HeritageEdoardo Gerlini and Andrea GiolaiChapter 1. “Textual Heritage” as a Catalyst for Humanistic Heritage Studies? The What, Why, and HowWiebke DeneckeChapter 2. The Dislocated Text as Global Heritage: Canonization, Translation, and Circulation of Verlaine and “Chanson d’automne” between France and JapanIsabelle LavelleChapter 3. (Con)Textual Heritage and BibliographyWayne de FremeryChapter 4. Three Sketches for a Critical Approach to Textual Heritage in Japanese Court Music (Gagaku)Andrea GiolaiChapter 5. Textualization as Cultural Heritage: The Case of the Pyramid TextsEmanuele. M. Ciampini and Francesca IannarilliChapter 6. Heritage Discourses in Early Japan—Analyzing Strategies of Textual Appropriation in Poetic Anthologies of Eight and Ninth CenturyEdoardo GerliniChapter 7. Japanese Linked Verse (Renga)—Textual Heritage and BeyondHeidi Buck-AlbuletChapter 8. Topology and the Spatial Imaginary: Maps as Convergent Sites of Textual HeritageRadu LecaChapter 9. Digital Strategies for the Decanonization of Textual HeritageFranz FischerChapter 10. Future Relations of Textual HeritageDavid HarveyAfterword: Textual Heritage: Intangible Heritage, Embodiment and Authenticity beyond “Text”Natsuko AkagawaIndex

“This is potentially a groundbreaking publication as it is the first sustained attempt to promote the idea of ‘textual heritage’ as a separate category of heritage. It has long been felt that texts and their immense importance for cultural identities and long-term cultural memory have been left out of heritage studies as they do not belong to tangible nor intangible heritage as defined and practised by UNESCO.” • Lars Boje Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark

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 FiguresIntroduction: Heritagizing Texts, Textualizing HeritageEdoardo Gerlini and Andrea GiolaiChapter 1. “Textual Heritage” as a Catalyst for Humanistic Heritage Studies? The What, Why, and HowWiebke DeneckeChapter 2. The Dislocated Text as Global Heritage: Canonization, Translation, and Circulation of Verlaine and “Chanson d’automne” between France and JapanIsabelle LavelleChapter 3. (Con)Textual Heritage and BibliographyWayne de FremeryChapter 4. Three Sketches for a Critical Approach to Textual Heritage in Japanese Court Music (Gagaku)Andrea GiolaiChapter 5. Textualization as Cultural Heritage: The Case of the Pyramid TextsEmanuele. M. Ciampini and Francesca IannarilliChapter 6. Heritage Discourses in Early Japan—Analyzing Strategies of Textual Appropriation in Poetic Anthologies of Eight and Ninth CenturyEdoardo GerliniChapter 7. Japanese Linked Verse (Renga)—Textual Heritage and BeyondHeidi Buck-AlbuletChapter 8. Topology and the Spatial Imaginary: Maps as Convergent Sites of Textual HeritageRadu LecaChapter 9. Digital Strategies for the Decanonization of Textual HeritageFranz FischerChapter 10. Future Relations of Textual HeritageDavid HarveyAfterword: Textual Heritage: Intangible Heritage, Embodiment and Authenticity beyond “Text”Natsuko AkagawaIndex

“This is potentially a groundbreaking publication as it is the first sustained attempt to promote the idea of ‘textual heritage’ as a separate category of heritage. It has long been felt that texts and their immense importance for cultural identities and long-term cultural memory have been left out of heritage studies as they do not belong to tangible nor intangible heritage as defined and practised by UNESCO.” • Lars Boje Mortensen, University of Southern Denmark