SEJARAH PERKEMBANGAN TEORI DAN KRITIK SASTRA INDONESIA

Maman S. Mahayana *

Teori sastra (literary theory)[1] di Indonesia secara praksis sering kali dipahami juga sebagai kritik sastra (criticism).[2] Sementara kritik sastra tidak jarang diperlakukan sebagai pendekatan (approaches to literature).[3] Dalam hal ini, kritik sastra dianggap merupakan pendekatan yang dapat dimanfaatkan dan digunakan untuk berbagai kepentingan penelitian terhadap karya sastra konkret. Lanjutkan membaca “SEJARAH PERKEMBANGAN TEORI DAN KRITIK SASTRA INDONESIA”

A Trace of a Long Journey


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, and individual expectation which is basically represent the culture of the nation. Lanjutkan membaca “A Trace of a Long Journey”