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Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres
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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.
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.
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Alireza Korangy, Ph.D. (2007), Harvard University, is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Persian Literature (Penn State University Press) and acting president of Societas Philologica Persica. His recent monograph is Development of the Ghazal and Khaqani's Contribution: A Study of the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12th c. Poetic Harbinger (Harrassowitz, 2013). His upcoming monograph is an examination of the literary dimensions of martyrdom in Iran.
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"This excellent volume represents a significant and most welcome contribution to the study of Indo-Persian and Urdu literary traditions, focusing on thematic, linguistic, and translation developments of Indo-Persian and Urdu poetry and prose in both colonial and post colonial periods." - Saeedeh Shahnahpur, Leiden University, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 75/3-4 (2018)
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June 6, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789004341579
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278
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Keywords for this book
Dastan; Ghālib; Hindi; Hindi-Urdu; Indian; Indian-Pakistani; Iqbal; Mir; Shamsur Rahman Farooqi; South Asian; comparative; culture; hermeneutics; history; language; linguistics; literary; literature; poetry; rhetorics; sabk-Hindi; studies; subcontinent; theory; translation
Audience(s) for this book
The volume is of interest to those interested in Urdu and Indo-Persian studies.
