Wednesday, 22 October 2008 (09:49) | 201 views | 0 komentar | Print this Article
Maman S Mahayana Pembicaraan mengenai fungsi latar dalam puisi, sejauh ini jarang sekali kita jumpai. Padahal pembicaraan mengenai masalah itu penting artinya untuk memahami makna puisi sebagai kesatuan estetik. Seperti juga latar dalam drama atau novel, latar dalam puisi berhubungan dengan penyebutan nama tempat, angka tahun, dan penggambaran suasana dan situasi sosial tertentu. Dalam hal ini, penghadiran latar oleh penyairnya tentu bukan tanpa maksud. Ada sesuatu yang sengaja hendak disampaikan,... (more...)
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 (09:46) | 3,804 views | 1 komentar | Print this Article
Maman S Mahayana Pembicaraan puisi epik biasanya selalu dikaitkan dengan kisah-kisah klasik peperangan dan kepahlawanan yang menakjubkan. Mengingat kisah-kisah itu terdiri dari serangkaian peristiwa dan sejumlah episode, maka bentuk puisi epik hampir selalu berupa puisi naratif yang panjang. Di dalam perkembangannya kemudian, panjang pendeknya puisi itu, bukanlah merupakan ukuran mutlak. Ia juga bukan merupakan ciri satu-satunya. (more…) Read More →
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 (09:44) | 677 views | 1 komentar | Print this Article
Maman S Mahayana Gurindam secara umum, semula dipahami sebagai dua baris perkataan yang menjadi peribahasa atau pepatah. Mengingat pesan yang dikandungnya berisi nasihat atau peringatan, maka dalam masyarakat Melayu, gurindam sering dianggap sejenis dengan kata mutiara. Ia ditulis di halaman buku atau ditempel di dinding sebagai penghias. Kadang kala diucapkan oleh para tetua desa pada acara-acara tertentu sebagai nasihat atau peringatan. Mereka menganggap bahwa nasihat seperti itu sebagai... (more...)
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 (09:35) | 126 views | 1 komentar | Print this Article
Maman S Mahayana Dari manakah kita memulai jika hendak mengungkapkan kebudayaan Melayu sebagai salah satu simpul ingatan keserumpunan? Produk kebudayaan Melayu yang manakah yang segera muncul dalam ingatan ketika kita membicarakan kebudayaan Melayu? Sejarah Melayu yang mengungkapkan silsilah raja-raja Melayu, Gurindam Dua Belas— (more…) Read More →
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 (09:28) | 24 views | 1 komentar | Print this Article
Maman S. Mahayana Literature is a spirit of culture. It is born from a very complicated process of the author anxiety upon the social condition and a tension between individual and his surrounding culture. Literature is also frequently located as the social portray. It reveals the particular society at the particular time. It is sometimes considered to voice the spirit of its period. And it is there that literature gives the specific understanding about social situation, belief system, ideology,... (more...)
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 (09:25) | 202 views | 0 komentar | Print this Article
Maman S. Mahayana Return to the Right Path Compared to the works of the other country literary life, Indonesian literature, or novel in particular, is actually born and grown up in a specific socio-cultural dynamic. It is specific because of its ability to manifest the Indonesian heterogeneity along with their various cultures. Indonesian novels seem to be the representation of the spirit, or even the culture of the Indonesian ethnic and its socio-cultural environment. (more…) Read More →
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 (09:12) | 131 views | 0 komentar | Print this Article
Maman S. Mahayana Literature is the spirit of culture. It is born through a complicated process as the result of the literary persons’ anxieties upon the social condition in its tension with his culture. Sometimes, literature emerges as a social protest to portray the social condition at a particular time. It is also viewed as the spirit of its age. And from there, literature contribute the particular insight upon the social situation, belief system, ideology, and... (more...)
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 (09:03) | 31 views | 0 komentar | Print this Article
Maman S Mahayana Relationship between novel and philosophy in the modern Indonesian novel is heavily influenced by the western philosophy, particularly existentialism. In this case, Iwan Simatupang, can be called as a pioneer, although Djamil Suherman’s role in Perjalanan ke Akherat (1963), viewed from Islamic Philosophy Islam, could not be undermined. (more…) Read More →












