Journeys and metaphors; Some preliminary observations about the natural world of seashore and forested mountains in epic "kakawin"

In earlier publications I have argued that ancient Javanese poets imagined the world to be one marked by distinctions between a social world consisting of palace (kaḍatwan) and countryside (thāni-ḍusun) and a wilderness of seashores and forested mountains (pasir-wukir). The social world was characte...

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Main Author: Peter Worsley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities 2022-04-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
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Online Access:https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol23/iss2/1/