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Nets of awareness : Urdu poetry and its critics /
"Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry--long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture--became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century. This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry--long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture--became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century. This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent Indian Mutiny of 1857. She uses the lives and writings of the distinguished poets and critics Azad and Hali to show the disastrous consequences--culturally and politically--of British rule. The British had science, urban planning--and Wordsworth. Azad and Hali had a discredited culture and a metaphysical, sexually ambiguous poetry that differed radically from English lyric forms. Pritchett's beautiful reconstruction of the classical Urdu poetic vision allows us to understand one of the world's richest literary traditions and also highlights the damaging potential of colonialism." -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520914278 0520914279 0585131767 9780585131764 9780520081949 0520081943 9780520083868 0520083865 |