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https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/577759| Title: | Between the broaddaylight and the shadow:metamorphoses of the Bakhtiar tale in persian and Malay |
| Authors: | Vladimir Braginsky |
| Keywords: | Traditional Malay literature Persian influence Hikayat Bakhtiar Quotation Recension intertext Hikayat Maharaja Ali Syair Bidasari |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Description: | Barthes defined the literary text as “a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture”. Developing this statement, we can postulate two forms of existence of the literary text. On the one hand, it may exist as a holistic entity in which all components are interlinked so that they can bear an integral meaning. This is a “syntagmatic” existence of the literary work as a “tissue”, or a certain structure. On the other hand, the literary text may exist as a destructuralised set of the same components isolated from each other—its “paradigmatic” existence as a sum total of quotations that contribute to the all-embracing repository of “quotations”, which makes up the intertext of a particular literature. This intertext provides “building blocks” for the construction of new literary pieces. In this article I shall discuss the two forms of existence of literary works on the basis of one piece of Persian literature translated into Malay. The example chosen is Hikayat Bakhtiar (Tale of Bakhtiar), and its transformations and diverse literary constructions that were built of “quotations” from it over more than two centuries. This discussion, among other things, will help us to explain the strong Persian influence on Malay traditional literature, despite the relatively small number of Persian writings translated into Malay. |
| News Source: | Malay Literature |
| ISSN: | 0128-1186 |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Pages: | 205-228 |
| Publisher: | Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka |
| Appears in Collections: | Journal Content Pages/ Kandungan Halaman Jurnal |
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