| An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry: In English Translation, with Urdu Text Critical Edition Contributor(s): Habib, M. A. (Editor), Habib, M. A. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0873527976 ISBN-13: 9780873527972 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback Language: Urdu Published: January 2003 Annotation: Currently spoken by almost 250 million people in Pakistan and India and the second most widely spoken language in Briain, Urdu has one of the richest literatures of all south Asian languages. The modern Urdu poets presented in this book offer a fascinating range of forms and styles that grew out of that tradition, as well as a complex commentary on the experience -- personal, religious, cultural, political -- of the issues and dilemmas of the twentieth century. In his introduction, M. A. R. Habib outlines the history of Urdu literature, identifies the major poets associated with the classical tradition, discusses some Western influences, and describes the formal genres of the poetry (the qasida, the masnavi, and the marisiya forms of the longer poems; the qit'a, the rubai, and the ghazal forms of the shorter poems). Together, the commentary and the poems in this volume provide an informed introduction to major modern trends in Urdu poetry. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General - Poetry | Middle Eastern - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 891.439 |
| LCCN: 2002040950 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.63 lbs) 237 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Habib, M. A. R.: - M. A. R. Habib, associate professor of English at Rutgers University, Camden, is author of The Dissident Voice: Poems of N.M. Rashed in English Translation and The Early T.S. Eliot and Western Philosophy. He is currently completing a book on the history of literary criticism. |