Urdu Literatureاردو ادب
Ghazal, revolution, and the Progressive imagination
This subject introduces the classical ghazal tradition, the Progressive Writers' Movement, Partition literature, and the modern Urdu short story and criticism, with attention to script, prosody, and translation.
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The Ghazal: Form, Convention, and Mir to Ghalib
The formal architecture of the Urdu ghazal and its transformation from Mir Taqi Mir's plaintive lyricism to Ghalib's philosophical density.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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The Progressive Writers' Movement
The 1930s-40s literary movement that fused Marxist politics with Urdu (and pan-Indian) fiction and poetry, producing Faiz, Manto, and Chughtai.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 03
Iqbal: Poetry, Philosophy, and Political Thought
Muhammad Iqbal's philosophical poetry, his concept of khudi (selfhood), and his complex, contested political legacy.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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Modern Urdu Fiction and Faruqi's Critical Revolution
The post-Independence Urdu short story, the dastan revival, and Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's reshaping of Urdu literary criticism.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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The Persian and Arabic Literary Inheritance of Urdu
How Urdu's poetic forms, prosody, and imaginative vocabulary derive from Persian and, through Persian, from Arabic literary traditions.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises
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Urdu in Global Diaspora and in the Literature of Pakistan
The trajectories of Urdu literature after Partition: its institutionalisation as Pakistan's national language and its dispersed diaspora communities across the Gulf, Britain, and North America.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 2 exercises
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The Ghazal in World Lyric: Troubadour Verse, Haiku, Sonnet, and Translation
A comparative study of the Urdu ghazal alongside other world lyric traditions and the translation-theoretical problems each comparison raises.
5 concepts · 4 sources · 3 exercises