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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Language: | English |
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Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities
2022-04-01
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Series: | Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia |
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Online Access: | https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol23/iss2/1/ |