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Ghalib

Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind

Surinder (Previously Program Manager and Senior Specialist, Previously Program Manager and Senior Specialist, World Bank in Washington) Deol & Gopi Chand (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia) Narang

Ghalib

Ghalib

Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind

Ghalib

 

This work studies the ingenious poetics of Ghalib by tracing the roots of his creative consciousness and enigmatic thought in Buddhist dialectical philosophy, in particular in Nagarjuna's concept ofshunyata(emptiness or voidness) as well as the influence of the Sabke Hindi tradition (the Indian style of Mughal Persian poetry with indigenized poetics), especially through Abdul-Qadir Bedil, whom Ghalib considered his mentor.


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Beschrijving Ghalib

Interpretations of Mirza Ghalib's works have been changing with the times. Romantics, classicists, progressives, and modernists, all have found evidence in his writings that appeared close to their viewpoints.

This work studies the ingenious poetics of Ghalib by tracing the roots of his creative consciousness and enigmatic thought in Buddhist dialectical philosophy, in particular in Nagarjuna's concept ofshunyata(emptiness or voidness). The author also underscores the importance of the Sabke Hindi tradition, that is, the Indian style of Mughal Persian poetry with indigenized poetics, especially through Abdul-Qadir Bedil, whom Ghalib considered his mentor. He contends that Ghalib reinvented and polished this tradition deploying the dialectical mode and the language of silence he mastered through his understanding of the ancient philosophy of India under the influence of his mentor Bedil of the Sabke Hindi tradition. Creativity is a complex matter where nothing is cut numerically to the preconceived notions. The charm of love poetry of Ghalib comes from his complexity and ingenuity. This has been established through the study in this book that makes it exciting and revealing. Gopi Chand Narang engages with Ghalib criticism that has flourished since his death and analyses the important works of the poet, including pieces from earlyNuskhas andDivan-e Ghalib, using this central argument.


ISBN
9780199475919
Pagina's
464
Verschenen
NUR
320
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP India

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