The atmosphere of community life nowadays is felt by many as something lacking peace and harmony, with the frequent occurrence of extremely brutal behavior committed even by children to parents or vice versa. It is considered, however, that our younger generation is in possession of the greater quantity of such behavior. Now the problem that arises is how to bring forth a morally good younger g…
Nowadays our society are facing a cultural transitional period, that is, a period of transition from an agrarian society to an industrial society. In accordance with the transitional period, the kethoprak art is also being worked on with an orientation to an art industry. However, the effort to make an art industry still needs to be reexamined because the performances that have taken place have…
The Javanese spoken by its speech communities in East Java has characteristics different from those of the Javanese spoken by its speech communities in other regions of Java. The characteristics can be examined in terms of its word form and word choice in everyday utterances made by its speakers. The differences become more marked when one relates the utterances with the social-class background…
In their development, the languages referred to as Bahasa Indonesia (or BI, for short) and New Javanese (or NJ, for short) have absorbed a quantity of lexicon from Sanskrit. Much of the same lexicon has been absorbed from Sanskrit into BI and NJ. Granted that BI and NJ influence each other, perhaps BI has absorbed the Sanskrit lexicon from NJ or vice versa. However, referring to historical aspe…
Manuscripts of Javanese literary texts with a Christian nuance are difficult to obtain. Compared with the development of the Hindu, Buddhism, and Moslem traditions in Javanese literary culture, that of the Christian tradition is still relatively new. Only a few Javanese literary texts with a Christian nuance are assumed to be currently in existence. The writer has in hand a manuscript containin…
This article is about a study conducted to describe the Layang Mursada Pesisiran, one of the classical texts resulting from the development of coastal literary work. Layang Mursada Pesisiran, the subject of the study, was written (or, rather, copied from the original) in 1879 and published by Badan Pekerja Kongres Bahasa Jawa, a working body for a congress on the Javanese language. The manuscri…
Though the French avant garde poet Apollinaire is no longer alive, his masterpieces remain timeless and his influence on the world of literature and art are greatly felt. The way typographical poetry, which is a kind of visual poetry or calligram, is presented is extremely interesting and this article intends to describe the relation between the meaning of the words in the calligram and its pic…