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…
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…
Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790 offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element of eighteenth-century Britain’s literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scribal culture, the book profiles four interrelated and influential coteries, focusing on each…