Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature /

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Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have existed since around the ninth and tenth centuries. In the following centuries new versions were created alongside the old ones, and these opened up interesting new directions. They questioned the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Molen, W. van der (Willem), 1952- (Editor), Ding, Choo Ming (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018.
Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, 2018.
Series:Nalanda-Sriwijaya series ; 34.
Subjects:
Vālmīki. > Rāmāyaṇa.
Mahābhārata.
Mahābhārata
Rāmāyaṇa (Vālmīki)
Javanese literature > History and criticism.
Malay literature > History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Indic > History and criticism.
Littérature javanaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature malaise > Histoire et critique.
Poésie épique de l'Inde > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Epic poetry, Indic
Javanese literature
Malay literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Willem van der Molen
  • 2. The Rāmāyaṇa in Java and Bali : chapters from its literary history / Stuart Robson
  • 3. Abimanyu Gugur : the death of Abimanyu in classical and modern Indonesian and Malay literature / Harry Aveling
  • 4. Drona's betrayal and Bima's brutality : Javanaiserie in Malay culture / Bernard Arps
  • 5. Ramayana and Mahabharata in Hikayat misa taman / Jayeng Kusuma, Gijs L. Koster
  • 6. The death of Śalya : Balinese textual and iconographic representations of the Kakawin Bhāratayuddha / Helen Creese
  • 7. The illustrated Asṭabrata in Pakualaman manuscript art / Edwin P. Wieringa.

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