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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pritchett, Frances W., 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994.
Series:Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
Subjects:
Āzād, Muḥammad Ḥusain, > approximately 1834-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ḥālī, K̲h̲vājah Alt̤āf Ḥusain, > 1837-1914 > Criticism and interpretation.
Āzād, Muḥammad Ḥusain, > approximately 1834-1910
Ḥālī, K̲h̲vājah Alt̤āf Ḥusain, > 1837-1914
Urdu literature > History and criticism.
Littérature ourdoue > Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Urdu literature
Literatur
Lyrik
Urdu.
Urdu poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A garden now destroyed
  • The lost world
  • Beyond a sea of blood
  • Reconstruction
  • The water of life
  • Flowers on the branch of invention
  • Tazkirahs
  • Poems two lines long
  • The art and craft of poetry
  • The mind and heart in poetry
  • Light from English lanterns
  • The cycles of time
  • From Persian to English
  • "Natural poetry"
  • Poetry and morality
  • Epilogue.

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