The Urdu ghazal : a gift of India's composite culture /

The book presents unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India's composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Hindu and alien value systems. It is a work of painstaking research conducted by eminent Urdu scholar and author Professor Gopi Chand Narang over a very long period. T...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Narang, Gopi Chand
Weitere Verfasser:
Deol, Surinder (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Zusammenfassung:
The book presents unique flowering of Urdu ghazal as a by-product of India's composite culture that evolved from intermixing of Hindu and alien value systems. It is a work of painstaking research conducted by eminent Urdu scholar and author Professor Gopi Chand Narang over a very long period. The book includes sample works of thematically related poets. The reader will especially appreciate extended coverage of pioneering innovators of the twentieth-century like Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and postmodern poets like Gulzar and Javed Akhtar.
Umfang:
1 online resource (544 pages).
Anmerkungen:
Translated from the Urdu.
Anmerkungen:
English; includes passages in Urdu (Latin).
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-099004-X
0-19-099005-8
Schlagworte:
Ghazals, Urdu > History and criticism.
Ghazals, Urdu > Translations into English.
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