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

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Introduction; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Indo-Persian; Chapter 1 K̲h̲ushgū's Dream of Ḥāfiz̤: Authorship, Temporality, and Canonicity in Late Mughal India; Chapter 2 Notes on ʻAbdul Nabī Fak̲h̲rul Zamānī and Other Indo-Persian Storytellers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Chapter 3 Ḥāfiz̤ in the Poetry and Philosophy of Muḥammad Iqbāl; Part 2 Urdu Literary Theory, Urdu Dāstān, Creative Writing, Urdu Philology; Chapter 4 Revisiting that Earth(l)y, Glorious Tradition; Chapter 5 Continuing the Tradition: A Commentary on the "Neglected" Verses of G̲h̲ālib

Chapter 6 Voyeur Candle, Tattler Candle: The Semiotics of nāyikābheda in G̲h̲ālib's Urdu Dīvān 39.1Chapter 7 Mīr as Suffering Curmudgeon: A Historical Hatchet Job; Chapter 8 "I am a Ruby Wrapped in a Rag": Zay K̲h̲ay Sheen and the Possibility of Poetry as Autobiography; Chapter 9 "The Tide and Flow of Islam" Musaddas by Ḥālī as a Poetic Memorial of the Muslim Enlightenment in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 10 Jūtē haiṉ jāpānī kaprē inglistānī: Sayyid RossMasood's Passage to Japan

Chapter 11 From a Slave Garden into Cyberspace: Mirza Athar Baig's Novels G̲h̲ulām Bāg̲h̲ and Ṣifr Se Ek TakChapter 12 A Translation of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's Prem Kumar Nazar; Index of Subjects; Index of Names

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.

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