The Canon in Southeast Asian Literatures: Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and VietnamDavid Smyth Psychology Press, 2000 - 273 halaman The literary canon is one of the most lively areas of debate in contemporary literary studies. This set of essays is both timely and original in its focus on the canon in South-East Asian literatures, covering Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. They vary in focus, from the broad panoramic survey of trends in a national literature to very specific discussions of the role of individuals in shaping a canon or the place of a particular text within a tradition, and from contemporary to traditional literature. They include discussions of the development of prose fiction, censorship and artistic freedom, the role of westerners in codifying indigenous literatures, the writing of literary history, the development of literary criticism and indigenous aesthetics. |
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Continuity and change in the Burmese literary canon | 21 |
an overview of Vietnamese writing | 41 |
configuring | 58 |
Development in Malay criticism | 76 |
The construction and institutionalisation of Abdullah | 99 |
J Kats and Javanese poetics | 114 |
The emergence of twentieth century Cambodian literary | 135 |
an analysis of Indonesian | 147 |
Towards the canonizing of the Thai novel | 172 |
Tajus Salatin The Crown of Sultans of Bukkhari alJauhari | 183 |
convention and creativity in traditional | 210 |
retrieving native poetics | 234 |
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