Urdu and Indo-Persian thought, poetics, and belles lettres / / edited by Alireza Korangy.

• TeilnehmendeR: Korangy, Alireza.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Indological Library 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; K̲h̲ushgū’s Dream of Ḥāfiz̤: Authorship, Temporality, and Canonicity in Late Mughal India /; Notes on ʿAbdul Nabī Fak̲h̲rul Zamānī and Other Indo-Persian Storytellers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries /; Ḥāfiz̤ in the Poetry and Philosophy of Muḥammad Iqbāl /; Revisiting that Earth(l)y, Glorious Tradition /; Continuing the Tradition: A Commentary on the “Neglected” Verses of G̲h̲ālib /; Voyeur Candle, Tattler Candle: The Semiotics of nāyikābheda in G̲h̲ālib’s Urdu Dīvān 39.1 /; Mīr as Suffering Curmudgeon: A Historical Hatchet Job /; “I am a Ruby Wrapped in a Rag”: Zay K̲h̲ay Sheen and the Possibility of Poetry as Autobiography /; “The Tide and Flow of Islam” /; Jūtē haiṉ jāpānī kaprē inglistānī: Sayyid Ross Masood’s Passage to Japan /; From a Slave Garden into Cyberspace: Mirza Athar Baig’s Novels G̲h̲ulām Bāg̲h̲ and Ṣifr Se Ek Tak /; A Translation of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s Prem Kumar Nazar /; Index of Subjects --; Index of Names.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004341579
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alireza Korangy.

Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres , is a collection on the subject of Urdu poetics, Dastan, translation studies in Urdu, and Indo-Persian. The essays employ interdisciplinary perspectives for exploring the dynamic literary landscape of the South Asian subcontinent since the sixteenth century. The individual topics in the collection depict a plausible picture of how the development of Urdu and Indo-Persian thoughts and poetics have influenced one another for centuries. Contributors are: Satya Hedge, Prashant Keshavmurthy, Pasha M. Khan, Mehr Afshan Faruqi, David Lelyveld, Natalia Prigarina, Carla Petievich, Christina Oesterheld, Baidar Bakht, Frances Pritchett, Gail Minault, Ludmila Vassilieva.