Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), N.M. Rashid (1910-1975), and Miraji (1912-1949) are three of the most prominent poets of Urdu modernism. Despite writing at the same time and responding to the same literary and political landscapes, they took different approaches to tradition and its relationship to poetic invention, views on literature’s role in responding to political realities, and how they wanted readers to engage with their work. These literary translations track their respective styles as they wrote during a moment of great upheaval: the Partition of India. This anthology is accompanied by an introduction which situates these poets in their specific literary and linguistic context, examines how their work is still relevant today, and tracks how the translator’s decisions are informed by their poetics.
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, a leading literary critic and intellectual examines classic English poetry, modern Jewish literature, the intersection of science and religion, and the fate of culture in a technological age. Whether the subject is the literary abilities of ChatGPT, the erotics of opera, the...
This paper draws from the philosophy of literature. It makes its arguments with reference to the history of Mahābhārata scholarship, at times focusing in on Bhagavadgītā scholarship. It argues that the critically reconstituted Mahābhārata archetype admits of appreciation as a literary work; that this is so regardless o...
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Offering new readings on language and civil conflict in a variety of Ancient Greek and Roman texts, this study puts these reflections from the classical world in dialogue with contemporary philosophy and political theory. Daniel Sutton focuses on Thucydides, Plato, Sallust, and Tacitus, exploring the ways in which the...
Jenő Dsida (1907–1938) was a poet and translator and a central figure of Transylvanian Hungarian literature in the interwar period. This study examines the relationship between modernism and faith in his poetry, with particular attention to the crisis of identity and language. It explores how the disintegration of the...
László Szilárd Szilveszter· Hungarian Cultural Studies· 0 citations
This article examines the development of Russian-language literature in Transnistria from the early 1990s to the mid-2020s. Drawing on newspapers, anthologies, and books published by local authors, it traces how literary representations of war, statehood, and identity evolved in parallel with political transformations...
Mihail Ceropita· Slovanský přehled· 0 citations
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