Research Catalog

Title

Storied island : new explorations in Javanese literature / edited by Ronit Ricci.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

Ricci, Ronit

Description

xiv, 301 pages : maps, illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Javanese literature is one of the world's richest and most unusual literary traditions yet it is little known today outside of Java, Indonesia, and a handful of western universities. With its more than a millennium of documented history, its complex interactions over the centuries with literature written in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Malay and Dutch, its often symbiotic relationship with the performing arts of puppetry and dance, and its own immense creativity and insight, this vastly understudied literature offers a lens to understanding Java's fascinating world as well as human ingenuity more broadly. The essays in this volume, Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature, take a fresh look at questions and themes pertaining to Java's literature, employing new theoretical and methodological lenses"--

Series Statement

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1572-1892 ; volume 316

Uniform Title

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 316.

Subject

• Javanese literature > History and criticism
• Javanese literature
• Indonesia

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Rediscovering Islam in Javanese history / M.C. Ricklefs -- Stepping on a Wulu : minor characters and narrative possibilities in the Sĕrat Cĕnthini / Tony Day -- Better to touch the heart : performing Sufi songs (Suluk) in the Sĕrat Cĕnthini / Nancy K. Florida -- The Hamza affect : feeling as a moving force in the Asian-Islamic epic / Bernard Arps -- Sunan Bonang's teaching : ethical Sufism in sixteenth-century Java / Yumi Sugahara -- Situated prophethood : reading the Serat Ambiya in nineteenth-century Java / Ronit Ricci -- Where is Mecca? Or, map and territory : reflections from Java / Verena Meyer -- Words of power and wisdom : credible authorities and reliable sources in the Sĕrat Nitik Sultan Agung / Els Bogaerts -- On the wrong side of history : key episodes in the Sĕrat Rama and the Panji Paniba / Willem van der Molen -- Rethinking categorization in Javanese literary history : some reflections on a fin-de-siècle memoir by Raden Sasrakusuma / Edwin P. Wieringa.

Call Number

JFE 23-3307

ISBN

• 9789004541467
• 9004541462
• 9789004678897 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023018213

OCLC

1380459237

Title

Storied island : new explorations in Javanese literature / edited by Ronit Ricci.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1572-1892 ; volume 316

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 316.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ricci, Ronit, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Storied island Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] 9789004678897 (DLC) 2023018214

Research Call Number

JFE 23-3307