Author: Mohammad Asaduddin
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Though Barely A Hundred Years Old, The Urdu Short Story, Or Afsana', Has Established Itself At The Forefront Of Urdu Literature. Emerging As A Discrete Narrative Genre With Munshi Premchand, It Gained Momentum With The Progressive Writers' Movement In The 1930S. The Partition Of The Subcontinent In 1947 Introduced New Dynamics Into The Genre As Writers Grappled With Emerging Trends Of Modernism And Symbolism As Well As With A Depleted Readership In India And The Challenge Of Establishing A New Literary Tradition Commensurate With A New Nationhood In Pakistan. The Penguin Book Of Classic Urdu Stories Brings Together Sixteen Memorable Tales That Have Influenced Generations Of Readers. From Saadat Hasan Manto'S Immortal Partition Narrative Toba Tek Singh' And The Harrowing Realism Of Premchand'S The Shroud' To The Whimsical Strains Of Qurratulain Hyder'S Confessions Of St Flora Of Georgia' And The Daring Experimentation Of Khalida Husain'S Millipede', This Definitive Collection Represents The Best Of Short Fiction In Urdu. In The Process, It Provides A Glimpse Of The Works Of Acclaimed Masters On Both Sides Of The Border Ismat Chughtai And Ashfaq Ahmad, Rajinder Singh Bedi And Intizar Husain, Krishan Chander And Hasan Manzar, Naiyer Masud And Ikramullah.
The Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories
Author: Mohammad Asaduddin
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Though Barely A Hundred Years Old, The Urdu Short Story, Or Afsana', Has Established Itself At The Forefront Of Urdu Literature. Emerging As A Discrete Narrative Genre With Munshi Premchand, It Gained Momentum With The Progressive Writers' Movement In The 1930S. The Partition Of The Subcontinent In 1947 Introduced New Dynamics Into The Genre As Writers Grappled With Emerging Trends Of Modernism And Symbolism As Well As With A Depleted Readership In India And The Challenge Of Establishing A New Literary Tradition Commensurate With A New Nationhood In Pakistan. The Penguin Book Of Classic Urdu Stories Brings Together Sixteen Memorable Tales That Have Influenced Generations Of Readers. From Saadat Hasan Manto'S Immortal Partition Narrative Toba Tek Singh' And The Harrowing Realism Of Premchand'S The Shroud' To The Whimsical Strains Of Qurratulain Hyder'S Confessions Of St Flora Of Georgia' And The Daring Experimentation Of Khalida Husain'S Millipede', This Definitive Collection Represents The Best Of Short Fiction In Urdu. In The Process, It Provides A Glimpse Of The Works Of Acclaimed Masters On Both Sides Of The Border Ismat Chughtai And Ashfaq Ahmad, Rajinder Singh Bedi And Intizar Husain, Krishan Chander And Hasan Manzar, Naiyer Masud And Ikramullah.
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Though Barely A Hundred Years Old, The Urdu Short Story, Or Afsana', Has Established Itself At The Forefront Of Urdu Literature. Emerging As A Discrete Narrative Genre With Munshi Premchand, It Gained Momentum With The Progressive Writers' Movement In The 1930S. The Partition Of The Subcontinent In 1947 Introduced New Dynamics Into The Genre As Writers Grappled With Emerging Trends Of Modernism And Symbolism As Well As With A Depleted Readership In India And The Challenge Of Establishing A New Literary Tradition Commensurate With A New Nationhood In Pakistan. The Penguin Book Of Classic Urdu Stories Brings Together Sixteen Memorable Tales That Have Influenced Generations Of Readers. From Saadat Hasan Manto'S Immortal Partition Narrative Toba Tek Singh' And The Harrowing Realism Of Premchand'S The Shroud' To The Whimsical Strains Of Qurratulain Hyder'S Confessions Of St Flora Of Georgia' And The Daring Experimentation Of Khalida Husain'S Millipede', This Definitive Collection Represents The Best Of Short Fiction In Urdu. In The Process, It Provides A Glimpse Of The Works Of Acclaimed Masters On Both Sides Of The Border Ismat Chughtai And Ashfaq Ahmad, Rajinder Singh Bedi And Intizar Husain, Krishan Chander And Hasan Manzar, Naiyer Masud And Ikramullah.
Classical Urdu Literature from the Beginning to Iqbāl
Author: Annemarie Schimmel
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447016711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447016711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ghazals
Author: Mir Taqi Mir
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674276485
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The finest ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir, the most accomplished of Urdu poets. The prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals—a poetic form of rhyming couplets—in a distinctive Indian style arising from the Persian ghazal tradition. Here, the lover and beloved live in a world of extremes: the outsider is the hero, prosperity is poverty, and death would be preferable to the indifference of the beloved. Ghazals offers a comprehensive collection of Mir’s finest work, translated by a renowned expert on Urdu poetry.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674276485
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The finest ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir, the most accomplished of Urdu poets. The prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals—a poetic form of rhyming couplets—in a distinctive Indian style arising from the Persian ghazal tradition. Here, the lover and beloved live in a world of extremes: the outsider is the hero, prosperity is poverty, and death would be preferable to the indifference of the beloved. Ghazals offers a comprehensive collection of Mir’s finest work, translated by a renowned expert on Urdu poetry.
Urdu Literary Culture
Author: M. Farooqi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137026928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137026928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.
Cosmopolitan Dreams
Author: Jennifer Dubrow
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824872703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In late nineteenth-century South Asia, the arrival of print fostered a dynamic and interactive literary culture. There, within the pages of Urdu-language periodicals and newspapers, readers found a public sphere that not only catered to their interests but encouraged their reactions to featured content. Cosmopolitan Dreams brings this culture to light, showing how literature became a site in which modern daily life could be portrayed and satirized, the protocols of modernity challenged, and new futures imagined. Drawing on never-before-translated Urdu fiction and prose and focusing on the novel and satire, Jennifer Dubrow shows that modern Urdu literature was defined by its practice of self-critique and parody. Urdu writers resisted the cultural models offered by colonialism, creating instead a global community of imagination in which literary models could freely circulate and be readapted, mixed, and drawn upon to develop alternative lines of thinking. Highlighting the participation of readers and writers from diverse social and religious backgrounds, the book reveals an Urdu cosmopolis where lively debates thrived in newspapers, literary journals, and letters to the editor, shedding fresh light on the role of readers in shaping vernacular literary culture. Arguing against current understandings of Urdu as an exclusively Muslim language, Dubrow demonstrates that in the late nineteenth century, Urdu was a cosmopolitan language spoken by a transregional, transnational community that eschewed identities of religion, caste, and class. The Urdu cosmopolis pictured here was soon fractured by the forces of nationalism and communalism. Even so, Dubrow is able to establish the persistence of Urdu cosmopolitanism into the present and shows that Urdu’s strong tradition as a language of secular, critical modernity did not end in the late nineteenth century but continues to flourish in film, television, and on line. In lucid prose, Dubrow makes the dynamic world of colonial Urdu print culture come to life in a way that will interest scholars of modern Asian literatures, South Asian literature and history, cosmopolitanism, and the history of print culture.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824872703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In late nineteenth-century South Asia, the arrival of print fostered a dynamic and interactive literary culture. There, within the pages of Urdu-language periodicals and newspapers, readers found a public sphere that not only catered to their interests but encouraged their reactions to featured content. Cosmopolitan Dreams brings this culture to light, showing how literature became a site in which modern daily life could be portrayed and satirized, the protocols of modernity challenged, and new futures imagined. Drawing on never-before-translated Urdu fiction and prose and focusing on the novel and satire, Jennifer Dubrow shows that modern Urdu literature was defined by its practice of self-critique and parody. Urdu writers resisted the cultural models offered by colonialism, creating instead a global community of imagination in which literary models could freely circulate and be readapted, mixed, and drawn upon to develop alternative lines of thinking. Highlighting the participation of readers and writers from diverse social and religious backgrounds, the book reveals an Urdu cosmopolis where lively debates thrived in newspapers, literary journals, and letters to the editor, shedding fresh light on the role of readers in shaping vernacular literary culture. Arguing against current understandings of Urdu as an exclusively Muslim language, Dubrow demonstrates that in the late nineteenth century, Urdu was a cosmopolitan language spoken by a transregional, transnational community that eschewed identities of religion, caste, and class. The Urdu cosmopolis pictured here was soon fractured by the forces of nationalism and communalism. Even so, Dubrow is able to establish the persistence of Urdu cosmopolitanism into the present and shows that Urdu’s strong tradition as a language of secular, critical modernity did not end in the late nineteenth century but continues to flourish in film, television, and on line. In lucid prose, Dubrow makes the dynamic world of colonial Urdu print culture come to life in a way that will interest scholars of modern Asian literatures, South Asian literature and history, cosmopolitanism, and the history of print culture.
Nets of Awareness
Author: Frances W. Pritchett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520083865
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520083865
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Publisher Description
Urdu Language and Literature
Author: Gopi Chand Narang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urdu literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urdu literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A dictionary of Urdũ, classical Hindī and English
Author: John T. Platts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788173046704
Category : Hindi language
Languages : en
Pages : 1259
Book Description
The Distinguishing Of This Classic Dictionary Rare: The Space Assigned To The Etymology Of Words; The Arrangement Of Words Which Are Similarly Spelt But Differently Derived Into Separate Paragraphs According To Their Etymology; The Indicating The Postposition By Means Of Which An Indirectly Transitive, Or An Intransitive Verb Governs Its Object, And The Change Of Mmeaning Which Frequently Takes Place By The Employment Of Different Postpositions After A Verb ( Many Verbs, In Existing Dictionaries, Are Given As Transitive, Thus Leading One To Suppose That They Overn The Accusative Case, Whereas They Govern, It May Be, The Genitive, Or The Ablative, Or The Locative; E.G. Gabza Karna Is Called A Transitive Verb, Although It Governs The Locative); The Admission Of Numerous Words Which Do Not Find Place In The Literary Language. This Volume Is An Invaluable Accessory For The Scholars Of Classical Urdu And Hindi.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788173046704
Category : Hindi language
Languages : en
Pages : 1259
Book Description
The Distinguishing Of This Classic Dictionary Rare: The Space Assigned To The Etymology Of Words; The Arrangement Of Words Which Are Similarly Spelt But Differently Derived Into Separate Paragraphs According To Their Etymology; The Indicating The Postposition By Means Of Which An Indirectly Transitive, Or An Intransitive Verb Governs Its Object, And The Change Of Mmeaning Which Frequently Takes Place By The Employment Of Different Postpositions After A Verb ( Many Verbs, In Existing Dictionaries, Are Given As Transitive, Thus Leading One To Suppose That They Overn The Accusative Case, Whereas They Govern, It May Be, The Genitive, Or The Ablative, Or The Locative; E.G. Gabza Karna Is Called A Transitive Verb, Although It Governs The Locative); The Admission Of Numerous Words Which Do Not Find Place In The Literary Language. This Volume Is An Invaluable Accessory For The Scholars Of Classical Urdu And Hindi.
The Mirror of Beauty
Author: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184759932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1325
Book Description
It is the sunset of the Mughal Empire. The splendour of imperial Delhi flares one last time. The young daughter of a craftsman in the city elopes with an officer of the East India Company. And so we are drawn into the story of Wazir Khanam: a dazzlingly beautiful and fiercely independent woman who takes a series of lovers, including a Navab and a Mughal prince—and whom history remembers as the mother of the famous poet Dagh. But it is not just one life that this novel sets out to capture: it paints in rapturous detail an entire civilization. Beginning with the story of an enigmatic and gifted painter in a village near Kishangarh, The Mirror of Beauty embarks on an epic journey that sweeps through the death-giving deserts of Rajputana, the verdant valley of Kashmir and the glorious cosmopolis of Delhi, the craft of miniature painting and the art of carpet designing, scintillating musical performances and recurring paintings of mysterious, alluring women. Its scope breathtaking, its language beguiling, and its style sumptuous, this is a work of profound beauty, depth and power.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184759932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1325
Book Description
It is the sunset of the Mughal Empire. The splendour of imperial Delhi flares one last time. The young daughter of a craftsman in the city elopes with an officer of the East India Company. And so we are drawn into the story of Wazir Khanam: a dazzlingly beautiful and fiercely independent woman who takes a series of lovers, including a Navab and a Mughal prince—and whom history remembers as the mother of the famous poet Dagh. But it is not just one life that this novel sets out to capture: it paints in rapturous detail an entire civilization. Beginning with the story of an enigmatic and gifted painter in a village near Kishangarh, The Mirror of Beauty embarks on an epic journey that sweeps through the death-giving deserts of Rajputana, the verdant valley of Kashmir and the glorious cosmopolis of Delhi, the craft of miniature painting and the art of carpet designing, scintillating musical performances and recurring paintings of mysterious, alluring women. Its scope breathtaking, its language beguiling, and its style sumptuous, this is a work of profound beauty, depth and power.
Early Urdu Literary Culture and History
Author: Shamsurraḥmān Fārūqī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This Path Breaking Work Raises Several New Questions About Urdu Literary Culture And Traces The Origins And Development Of Urdu Literary Thought From 1300 To 1850
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This Path Breaking Work Raises Several New Questions About Urdu Literary Culture And Traces The Origins And Development Of Urdu Literary Thought From 1300 To 1850