Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres
Korangy, Alireza
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Book ID : 45384
ISBN-10 : 93-6080-145-3 / 9360801453
ISBN-13 : 978-93-6080-145-8 / 9789360801458
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2025
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
23 cm. 292p.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
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: Baidar Bakht, Mehr Afshan Farooqi, Satya Hegde, Prashant Keshavmurthy, Pasha M. Khan, David Lelyveld, Gail Minault, Christina Oesterheld, Carla Petievich, Natalia Prigarina, Frances Pritchett, Ludmila Vasilyeva. About the Author 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.
