LEADER 03203oam 2200529I 450 001 9910495966403321 005 20230421033221.0 010 $a0-585-13176-7 010 $a0-520-91427-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520914278 035 $a(CKB)110989862154028 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000209369 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12028492 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209369 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10266005 035 $a(PQKB)10889351 035 $a(DE-B1597)648337 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520914278 035 $a(EXLCZ)99110989862154028 100 $a20160829d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNets of awareness $eUrdu poetry and its critics /$fFrances W. Pritchett 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d1994. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-520-08386-5 311 0 $a0-520-08194-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note on Transliteration -- $tPreface -- $tPART ONE A GARDEN NOW DESTROYED -- $t1. The Lost World -- $t2. Beyond a Sea of Blood -- $t3. Reconstruction -- $t4. The Water of Life -- $tPART TWO FLOWERS ON THE BRANCH OF INVENTION -- $t5. Tazkirahs -- $t6. Poems Two Lines Long -- $t7. The Art and Craft of Poetry -- $t8. The Mind and Heart in Poetry -- $tPART THREE LIGHT FROM ENGLISH LANTERNS -- $t9. The Cycles of Time -- $t10. From Persian to English -- $t11. "Natural Poetry" -- $t12. Poetry and Morality -- $tEpilogue -- $tAppendix: A Ghazal Observed -- $tGlossary -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFrances 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. 606 $aUrdu literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndo-Iranian Languages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 615 0$aUrdu literature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aIndo-Iranian Languages & Literatures 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 676 $a891.4391 700 $aPritchett$b Frances W.$f1947-$01232554 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495966403321 996 $aNets of awareness$92861900 997 $aUNINA