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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Brill's Indological library ; 51
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Brill's Indological library ; 51.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Indo-Persian; Chapter 1 Ḵẖushgū's Dream of Ḥāfiz̤: Authorship, Temporality, and Canonicity in Late Mughal India; Chapter 2 Notes on ʿAbdul Nabī Faḵẖrul Zamānī and Other Indo-Persian Storytellers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Chapter 3 Ḥāfiz̤ in the Poetry and Philosophy of Muḥammad Iqbāl; Part 2 Urdu Literary Theory, Urdu Dāstān, Creative Writing, Urdu Philology; Chapter 4 Revisiting that Earth(l)y, Glorious Tradition; Chapter 5 Continuing the Tradition: A Commentary on the "Neglected" Verses of G̲ẖālib |
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Chapter 6 Voyeur Candle, Tattler Candle: The Semiotics of nāyikābheda in G̲ẖālib's Urdu Dīvān 39.1Chapter 7 Mīr as Suffering Curmudgeon: A Historical Hatchet Job; Chapter 8 "I am a Ruby Wrapped in a Rag": Zay Ḵẖay Sheen and the Possibility of Poetry as Autobiography; Chapter 9 "The Tide and Flow of Islam" Musaddas by Ḥālī as a Poetic Memorial of the Muslim Enlightenment in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 10 Jūtē haiṉ jāpānī kaprē inglistānī: Sayyid RossMasood's Passage to Japan |
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Chapter 11 From a Slave Garden into Cyberspace: Mirza Athar Baig's Novels G̲ẖulām Bāg̲ẖ and Ṛifr Se Ek TakChapter 12 A Translation of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's Prem Kumar Nazar; Index of Subjects; Index of Names |
| Summary |
Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres, is a collection on the subject of Urdu poetics, Dastan, translation studies in Urdu, and Indo-Persian. The essays employ interdisciplinary perspectives for exploring the dynamic literary landscape of the South Asian subcontinent since the sixteenth century. The individual topics in the collection depict a plausible picture of how the development of Urdu and Indo-Persian thoughts and poetics have influenced one another for centuries. Contributors are: Satya Hedge, Prashant Keshavmurthy, Pasha M. Khan, Mehr Afshan Faruqi, David Lelyveld, Natalia Prigarina, Carla Petievich, Christina Oesterheld, Baidar Bakht, Frances Pritchett, Gail Minault, Ludmila Vassilieva. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urdu literature -- History and criticism.
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Urdu literature. |
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Persian literature -- India -- History and criticism.
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Persian literature. |
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India. |
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Comparative literature -- Urdu and Persian.
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Comparative literature. |
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Comparative literature -- Persian and Urdu.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Korangy, Alireza, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Urdu and Indo-Persian thought, poetics, and belles lettres Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004251885 (DLC) 2017010686 |
| ISBN |
9789004341579 (electronic book) |
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9004341579 (electronic book) |
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9789004251885 (hardback) (acid-free paper) |
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