Ghalib: Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind

ISBN-13: 9780199475919 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 464 str.

Gopi Chand Narang; Surinder Deol

Opis

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.

O autorze

Gopi Chand Narang is professor emeritus at the University of Delhi and Jamia Milia Islamia. A renowned exponent of Urdu literature, he has won numerous prestigious awards and has been recipient of honours, including Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan and Sitara-e Imtiaz as well as the President's National Gold Medal, for his study of Allama Iqbal, from Pakistan. He has served as president of Sahitya Akademi. He was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota during the 1960s and at the University of Oslo in the late 1990s. He has published more than 60 widely acclaimed books in Urdu, Hindi, and English. As a versatile genius, his work transcends disciplinary boundaries and has been a source of enrichment to scholars in literary theory and criticism. Surinder Deol pursued the path of literature after retiring from the World Bank. He is author of several books, including a collection of his poems titled A Moment in the Universe that was published in 2006, followed by a novel Endless Life in 2012. In 2013 he undertook a major project to translate Ghalib's Urdu Divan in American free verse, a genre popularized by Coleman Barks for his translation of Rumi. This translation titled The Treasure: A Modern Rendition of Ghalib's Lyrical Love Poetry was published in 2014.