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A literary text is created by drawing upon literary devices, rhetoric, typologies of writing, concepts of composition and a variety of styles. These are broadly categorised under the broad head of literary terms. Here is a comprehensive collection of these terms and they are explained with examples to create a context for the understanding of ...
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While, It tends to be dominated by poetry , especially the verse forms of the ghazal ( غزل ) and nazm ( نظم ), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana ...
29 lis 2022 · This essay discusses Urdu-language akhlaq (ethics) texts produced and circulated in late-colonial India (1858–1947), situating them both within a classical genre of Islamic ethics and in the context of Indian vernacular print culture.
5 paź 2014 · Summary. Much light has been shed on the poetic dexterity and awe-inspiring aesthetic sensibility of Faiz (1911–1984) but his literary, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and social concerns, lucidly exposed to view in his prose writings, both in Urdu and English, have hardly been focussed on.
17 wrz 2023 · The anti-metaphor approach stems from the broader intellectual ambience of early modernity in Urdu literature, in which the fear of metaphor was predominant.
25 wrz 2016 · The social, intellectual and political background of Urdu literature written after Partition. The old cliché that literature mirrors society does hold water when it comes to classical as...
Thus the literature produced in Urdu was of a much superior quality than could have been expected of a young language. Early Urdu literature was weighed in favour of poetry that coveted varied subjects of philosophical and psychological importance but not issues of political or social significance.3 Modern Urdu poetry developed in the
