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The rhetoric of paintings; The Balinese <i>Malat</i> and the prospect of a history of Balinese ideas, imaginings, and emotions Worsley, Peter
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 21, No. 2
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Balinese paintings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shed light on how painters and their works speak to their viewers both about how Balinese in this period knew, imagined, thought, and felt about the world in which they lived, and about the visual representation and communication of these ideas, imaginings, and feelings through the medium of narrative paintings. In this paper I discuss five Balinese paintings of the Malat. The first two illustrate the episode in which Raden Misa Prabangsa stabs Raden Ino Nusapati’s horse. The third and fourth paintings illustrate Prabu Melayu’s rescue of his sister Princess Rangkesari of Daha from the court of the King of Lasem, and the fifth, the reuniting of Princess Rangkesari with her parents, the King and Queen of Daha. However, before I consider the paintings, I discuss briefly a number of historiographical issues concerning the reception of ideas, imaginings, and feelings conveyed in these five narrative paintings of the Malat and which need to be kept in mind when assessing interpretations of them.
Journeys and metaphors; Some preliminary observations about the natural world of seashore and forested mountains in epic <i>kakawin</i> Worsley, Peter
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 23, No. 2
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In earlier publications I have argued that ancient Javanese poets imagined the world to be one marked by distinctions between a social world consisting of palace (kaḍatwan) and countryside (thāni-ḍusun) and a wilderness of seashores and forested mountains (pasir-wukir). The social world was characterized by the presence of an effective royal authority; the wilderness by its absence. A distinction was also drawn between this world inhabited by human beings and a world in which gods, ancestral spirits, and other divine beings dwelt (kedewatan). Journeys through these landscapes are an enduring interest in the narrative literature in the literary tradition of ancient Java and Bali. Margaret V. Fletcher (1990, 2002, 2021), Tony Day (1994), Helen Creese (1998), Raechelle Rubinstein (2000), and Peter Worsley (2012b, et al. 2013) have argued that the accounts of journeys in epic kakawin and other related works are not just tales of travel between one physical place and another. Rather, they are accounts of other kinds of journeys: the “journeys” which poets seeking inspiration make or which ascetics seeking apotheosis with their iṣṭadewata undertake or those on which young men and women transitioning from childhood to adulthood embark. In this essay, I make some preliminary observations about passages describing journeys in the natural world in a diverse selection of works authored between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries in Java and Bali and discuss aspects of the metaphorical referencing of these descriptions.
Boechari, Melacak sejarah kuno Indonesia lewat prasasti/Tracing ancient Indonesian history through inscriptions; Kumpulan tulisan/Writings of Boechari. Worsley, Peter
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 15, No. 1
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Stuart Robson (editor and translator), "Kidung Pañji Margasmara; A Middle Javanese Romance (by Kĕmuling Rat Dyah Atapêng Raje)" Worsley, Peter
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 24, No. 3
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