Abstract
As a student of urdu,Frances Prittchet remembers her first experience
of the ghazal...the preeminent genre of classical urdu poetry...was love at
first sight.But much to her puzzelment and dismay,she discovered that
modern urdu critics generally approach the classical ghazal with appology
,or even open disdain.In Nets of Awareness , Pritchett joins literary
criticism and history to explain how ghazal,for centuries pride and joy of
indo Muslim cilture,was abruptly dethroned devalued with in its own
mileue by its own thoerists.This break with tradition was so sharp that
today many aspects of the ghazal remain obsecure,and often distasteful to
modern reader.
The cause of this abrupt shift ,Pritchett argues ,was not literary at
all,but political.Pritchett shows how British suppession of the Mutiny and
subsequent rule had disastrous cultural as well as political consequences.
In short,Pritchett shows us precisely the complexity and power of
ghazal.
عارفہ شہزاد. (2018) اردو غزل اور فرانسس پریچٹ , Bazyaft, Volume 32 , Issue1 .
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