Tahun 1950-an adalah masa di mana negara Indonesia baru terbentuk. Kondisi ekonomi dan politik negara yang masih karut-marut saat itu menyebabkan kehidupan sosial masyarakat belum stabil. Keadaan itu sedikit banyak memberikan dampak dalam perkembangan kesusastraan di Indonesia. Buku ini memberikan gambaran mengenai kondisi perpuisian di Indonesia pada tahun 1950-an yang disebut sebagai periode …
Usaha menduniakan sastra Indonesia yang sedang digalakkan mau tidak mau mensyaratkan satu hal penting, yakni pengetahuan tentang pengarang itu sendiri, yang mencakup jejak proses kreatif, pengembangan diri pengarang, dan karya yang dihasilkan. Buku ini mencoba menelusuri jejak pengarang sejak masa pres muncul, 1880 hingga 1980. Tujuh pengarang yang menghasilkan karya dalam kurun waktu satu abad…
In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, this rich body of work explores topics ranging from how computers…
Teks yang mengambil siklus cerita wayang purwa ini berisi cerita Pandawa dan keadaan Kerajaan Astina setelah perang Baratayuda yang disajikan dalam bentuk tembang macapat. Beberapa peristiwa setelah perang Baratayuda dalam teks SK antara lain adalah munculnya kereta kencana di Astina, moksanya Begawan Destarata, lahirnya Parikesit, munculnya kembali Aswatama, Kartamarma, dan Karpa (Kurawa yang …
Sejalan dengan rencana strategis Perpustakaan Nasional untuk menjalankan fungsinya sebagai perpustakaan pusat penelitian juga pusat pelestarian pernaskahan Nusantara, maka kegiatan alih-aksara, alih-bahasa, saduran dan kajian naskah kuno berbasis kompetisi perlu dilakukan sebagai upaya akselerasi percepatan penelitian naskah kuno yang berkualitas, memenuhi standar penelitian filologis, serta mu…
From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts. The vocabulary and metaphors of outbreak narratives have permeated how news media, policymakers and the general public view the real w…
In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns—from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed “We are all Greeks,” and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of…
Christianity in China has a history dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE), when Allopen—the first Nestorian missionary—arrived there in 635. In the late sixteenth century, Matteo Ricci together with other Jesuit missionaries commenced the Catholic missions to China. Protestant Christianity in China began with Robert Morrison, of London Missionary Society, who first set foot in Cant…
What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions—biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and …
"Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific discourse from the perspectives of rhetorical criticism, comparative cultural studies, narratolo…