Urdu and Indo-Persian thought, poetics, and belles lettres / edited by Alireza Korangy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Korangy, Alireza.

Series:

Brill's Indological Library 51.

Brill's Indological library ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urdu literature--History and criticism.

Urdu literature.

Persian literature--India--History and criticism.

Persian literature.

Comparative literature--Urdu and Persian.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Persian and Urdu.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

K̲h̲ushgū’s Dream of Ḥāfiz̤: Authorship, Temporality, and Canonicity in Late Mughal India / Prashant Keshavmurthy

Notes on ʿAbdul Nabī Fak̲h̲rul Zamānī and Other Indo-Persian Storytellers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Pasha M. Khan

Ḥāfiz̤ in the Poetry and Philosophy of Muḥammad Iqbāl / Natalia Prigarina

Revisiting that Earth(l)y, Glorious Tradition / Carla Petievich

Continuing the Tradition: A Commentary on the “Neglected” Verses of G̲h̲ālib / Mehr Afshan Farooqi

Voyeur Candle, Tattler Candle: The Semiotics of nāyikābheda in G̲h̲ālib’s Urdu Dīvān 39.1 / Satayanarayana Hegde

Mīr as Suffering Curmudgeon: A Historical Hatchet Job / Frances Pritchett

“I am a Ruby Wrapped in a Rag”: Zay K̲h̲ay Sheen and the Possibility of Poetry as Autobiography / Gail Minault

“The Tide and Flow of Islam” / Ludmila Vasilyeva

Jūtē haiṉ jāpānī kaprē inglistānī: Sayyid Ross Masood’s Passage to Japan / David Lelyveld

From a Slave Garden into Cyberspace: Mirza Athar Baig’s Novels G̲h̲ulām Bāg̲h̲ and Ṣifr Se Ek Tak / Christina Oesterheld

A Translation of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s Prem Kumar Nazar / Baidar Bakht

Index of Subjects

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-34157-9

OCLC:

990141243

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004341579 DOI