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Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics

Frances W. Pritchett

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Description: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 violent Indian Mutiny of 1857. She uses the lives and writings of the distinguished poets and critics Azad and Hali to show the disastrous consequences culturally and politically of British rule. The British had science, urban planning and Wordsworth. Azad and Hali had a discredited culture and a metaphysical, sexually ambiguous poetry that differed radically from English lyric forms.Pritchett's beautiful reconstruction of the classical Urdu poetic vision allows us to understand one of the world's richest literary traditions and also highlights the damaging potential of colonialism."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics. To get started finding Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: University of California Press

Release: 1994

ISBN: 0520914279

Description: 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 violent Indian Mutiny of 1857. She uses the lives and writings of the distinguished poets and critics Azad and Hali to show the disastrous consequences culturally and politically of British rule. The British had science, urban planning and Wordsworth. Azad and Hali had a discredited culture and a metaphysical, sexually ambiguous poetry that differed radically from English lyric forms.Pritchett's beautiful reconstruction of the classical Urdu poetic vision allows us to understand one of the world's richest literary traditions and also highlights the damaging potential of colonialism."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics. To get started finding Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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