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1. www.rekhta.org › urdu-resources › literary-terms-in-urduLiterary Terms in Urdu - Rekhta

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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 ...

2. www.isca.in › LANGUAGE › ArchiveRole of Progressive Movement and Modernism in Urdu Literature

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   Aim of this article is to discover prominent attributes of The Progressive Movement in the literature of Urdu language and considering dimensions to compare it with the European Modernism. This article also discovers development of The Progressive Movement year wise and outlines sway of Modernism of Europe over it.

3. www.jstor.org › stable › 23346444Progressive Writers' Movement in Urdu Literature - JSTOR

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   and oft-répeated cliches in the classical Urdu ghazal—the candle and the moth; the flower and the nightingale; the cup and the goblet, the lover and the beloved. He advocated the need for purpose and norms of social value in literature. This way Hali and his close associate Mohd. Husain Azad can be termed as the precursors of the Progressive ...

4. www.academia.edu › 65758469 › The_Fantastic_asThe Fantastic as Frontier: Realism, the Fantastic, and ...

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   This paper specifically engages with Pakistani anglophone speculative fiction which is explicitly in conversation with Urdu science fiction and fantasy tradition, and in so doing these works create new worlds of indigenous cultures as vibrant and resistant yet firmly fixed in both myth and alternate futures.

5. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullLiterary Romanticism and Islamic Modernity: The Case of Urdu ...

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   Jan 18, 2012 · 23 According to Faruqi, the literary theories of Urdu poeticians were original and local to their Indian environment and should not be over-compared to the Arab–Persian poetic tradition from which Urdu's formal genres and styles are derived.

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6. wordswithoutborders.org › read › articleUrdu Writing in India and Pakistan - Words Without Borders

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   Oct 8, 2010 · In his post, Waqas Khwaja takes us through the development and current landscape of Urdu writing in India and Pakistan. Make sure to read through our issues of Pakistani writing and Urdu Fiction from India in the archives. —Editors

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   Why is Urdu a popular language in Pakistan?

   • In Pakistan, on the other hand, Urdu has been adopted by writers in a variety of ethnic and cultural settings, which has led to the enrichment of the language through close interactions with Punjabi, Pashtun, Sindhi, and Baluch elements.

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   Is Urdu literature a ghazal or Afsana?

   • Certainly, the nazm (a term used in Urdu for both a free verse poem and one in strict meter and rhyme) has been widely adopted in Pakistan, and significantly longer fiction has been written on both sides of the border, but when one thinks of Urdu literature, it is overwhelmingly the ghazal and the afsana that come to mind.

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   Why is Urdu considered a language exclusive to Muslims?

   • Yet, the religious and sectarian politics of the pre-Partition years caused Urdu to be seen as a language exclusive to Muslims, to the extent that it was deployed as an argument for the separate nationhood of Indian Muslims in the struggle that led to the creation of Pakistan in 1947.

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   Is Urdu a uniting factor?

   • So to claim, simply, that Urdu is a uniting factor for people from different religious and ethnic groups, is to disregard the linguistic politics and metropolitan imperialism that assigned it to that position, and diminish the importance of the many languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent that possess their own flourishing literary traditions.

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   What keeps Urdu alive and thriving in India?

   • The one factor that has kept Urdu alive and thriving in India has been its continued use by the people who speak it natively, largely Muslims from Uttar Pradesh and the former state of Hyderabad (now absorbed in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra).

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   What are the two main genres of Urdu literature?

   • Through all the political and social developments of the last sixty-three years, the ghazal (a short poem in couplets of recurring rhyme) and the afsana (short story) remain the predominant genres of Urdu literature.

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8. scroll.in › article › 1057590Poetry picks: Read Ishrat Afreen’s feminist Urdu poetry in ...

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   Jan 30, 2024 · Ishrat Afreen is one of the five most influential writers of the feminist movement in Urdu literature and is counted amongst the most renowned poets in Pakistan.