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Michigan Series in South and Southeast Asian Languages and Linguistics Ser.: Introduction to Old Javanese Language and Literature : A Kawi Prose Anthology by Mary S. Zurbuchen (1976, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Michigan, Center for South & Southeast Asian Studies

ISBN-100891480536

ISBN-139780891480532

eBay Product ID (ePID)1338054

Product Key Features

Number of Pages162 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameIntroduction to Old Javanese Language and Literature : a Kawi Prose Anthology

SubjectSoutheast Asian Languages (See Also Vietnamese), General

Publication Year1976

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorMary S. Zurbuchen

Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines

SeriesMichigan Series in South and Southeast Asian Languages and Linguistics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight8.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN76-016235

Series Volume NumberNo. 3

SynopsisAnthologizes accessible excerpts from Southeast Asia's oldest literary tradition, pairing transliterations with facing-page English translations, The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia is Old Javanese, or Kawi. It is the oldest language in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts. Javanese literature has taken many forms. At various times, prose stories, sung poetry or other metrical types, chronicles, scientific, legal, and philosophical treatises, prayers, chants, songs, and folklore were all written down. Yet relatively few texts are available in English. The unstudied texts remaining are an unexplored record of Javanese culture as well as a language still alive as a literary medium in Bali. Introduction to Old Javanese Language and Literature represents a first step toward remedying the dearth of Old Javanese texts available to English-speaking students. The ideal teaching companion, this anthology offers transliterated original texts with facing-page English translations. Theanthology focuses on prose selections, since their straightforward style and syntax offer the beginning student the most rewarding experience. Four sections make up the collection. Part I offers several short readings as the most accessible entry point into Old Javanese. Part II contains two moralistic fables from an Old Javanese retelling of the Hindu Pañcatantra cycle. Part III takes up the epic, providing excerpts from one of the books of the Old Javanese retelling of the Mahabharata. Part IV offers excerpts from two chronicles, the generic conventions of which challenge received notions of history writing because of their supernaturalism and folkloric elements. Includes introduction, glossary, and notes.