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The Canon in South east Asian literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Loas, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam edited by David .

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Surrey Curzon Press 2000.Description: x, 273 pages 25 cmISBN:
  • 0700710906
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.09 SMY
Contents:
1. Buddhist hagiography in forming the canon in the classical literatures of Indochina /​ Yuriy M. Osipov 2. Myanmar prose writing: tradition and innovation in the twentieth century /​ Annemarie Esche 3. Continuity and change in the Burmese literary canon /​ Anna J. Allott 4. Literature in transition: an overview of Vietnamese writing of the Renovation Period /​ Dana Healy 5. The classics of Tagalog literature /​ Ruth Eynia S. Mabanglo 6. Literary excellence as national domain: configuring the masterpiece novel in the Philippines and Malaysia /​ Luisa J. Mallari 7. Development in Malay criticism /​ Lisbeth Littrup 8. Is there a women's canon? /​ Christine Campbell 9. The construction and institutionalisation of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi as the father of modern Malay literature: the role of westerners /​ Ungku Maimunah Mohd. Tahir 10. The regulation of beauty: J. Kats and Javanese poetics /​ Bernard Arps 11. The emergence of twentieth century Cambodian literary institutions: the case of Kambujasuriya /​ George Chigas 12. The canon of Indonesian literature: an analysis of Indonesian literary histories available in Indonesia /​ E. Ulrich Kratz 13. Towards the canonizing of the Thai novel /​ David Smyth 14. Tajus Salatin ('The Crown of Sultans') of Bukkhari al-Jauhari as a canonical work and an attempt to create a Malay literary canon /​ V. I. Braginsky 15. Books of Search: convention and creativity in traditional Lao literature /​ Peter Koret 16. Shot by foreign can(n)ons: retrieving native poetics /​ Muhammad Haji Salleh.
Summary: "This set of papers is both timely and original in its focus on the canon in South-East Asian literatures. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Papers presented at a workshop entitled "The canon in South East Asian literatures", hosted by the Centre of South East Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and held April 5-7, 1995. Cf. Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-273) and index.

1. Buddhist hagiography in forming the canon in the classical literatures of Indochina /​ Yuriy M. Osipov 2. Myanmar prose writing: tradition and innovation in the twentieth century /​ Annemarie Esche 3. Continuity and change in the Burmese literary canon /​ Anna J. Allott 4. Literature in transition: an overview of Vietnamese writing of the Renovation Period /​ Dana Healy 5. The classics of Tagalog literature /​ Ruth Eynia S. Mabanglo 6. Literary excellence as national domain: configuring the masterpiece novel in the Philippines and Malaysia /​ Luisa J. Mallari 7. Development in Malay criticism /​ Lisbeth Littrup 8. Is there a women's canon? /​ Christine Campbell 9. The construction and institutionalisation of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi as the father of modern Malay literature: the role of westerners /​ Ungku Maimunah Mohd. Tahir 10. The regulation of beauty: J. Kats and Javanese poetics /​ Bernard Arps 11. The emergence of twentieth century Cambodian literary institutions: the case of Kambujasuriya /​ George Chigas 12. The canon of Indonesian literature: an analysis of Indonesian literary histories available in Indonesia /​ E. Ulrich Kratz 13. Towards the canonizing of the Thai novel /​ David Smyth 14. Tajus Salatin ('The Crown of Sultans') of Bukkhari al-Jauhari as a canonical work and an attempt to create a Malay literary canon /​ V. I. Braginsky 15. Books of Search: convention and creativity in traditional Lao literature /​ Peter Koret 16. Shot by foreign can(n)ons: retrieving native poetics /​ Muhammad Haji Salleh.

"This set of papers is both timely and original in its focus on the canon in South-East Asian literatures. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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