Author : David Smyth
Release : 2013-10-08
Genre : Social Science
Kind :
Book Rating : 127/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

The Canon in Southeast Asian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Canon in Southeast Asian Literature write by David Smyth. This book was released on 2013-10-08. The Canon in Southeast Asian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.