Frances W Pritchett
Biographic Data
| ID | 711989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances W Pritchett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances W |
| FAMILY NAME | Pritchett |
| SIGNATURE | PRITCHETT F W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ghalib
Sitarah-e imtiyaz
Day and Dastan
Intizar Husain. Day and Dastan: Two Novellas. Translated by Nishat Zaidi and Alok Bhalla. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2018. 190 pp.; Rs. 395.In her introduction to this set of two novellas, Nishat Zaidi describes Intizar Husain as cultivating “the aesthetics of the banal” (7). She finds that Day, the longer and more realistic of the two novellas, “abounds in such enervating details of the daily and the mundane that at times the reader feels suffocat…
The Sky in an Ant’s Egg
Some of the most important structural patterns and devices used in individual ghazal verses by the famous poet Mirza Asadullah Khan ‘Ghalib’ are identified and analyzed; their literary effectiveness is illustrated with examples and discussion. In particular, the paper considers two such patterns. One set of verses have a ‘twist’ to them, such that the reader (or, ideally, hearer) is first misled or confused, then at the last possible moment is su…
The Pursuit of Urdu Literature
The Romance Tradition in Urdu
Like King Arthur in Europe, the Persian hero Amir Hamzah has fought and connived his way through eight centuries of adventure throughout the Islamic world. Here is a new translation of a version of his tale, told in Urdu in India, and set down and first published in 1871. Includes a glossary with pronunciation. No index. Annotation copyright Book N
Iqbal
Pakistani Folk Culture
Marvelous Encounters
The Epic of Palnāḍu
Śīt Basant
The Romance Tradition in Urdu
Like King Arthur in Europe, the Persian hero Amir Hamzah has fought and connived his way through eight centuries of adventure throughout the Islamic world. Here is a new translation of a version of his tale, told in Urdu in India, and set down and first published in 1871. Includes a glossary with pronunciation. No index. Annotation copyright Book N
The Epic of Palnāḍu
Śīt Basant
The Epic of Palnāḍu
Marvelous Encounters
Pakistani Folk Culture
The Pursuit of Urdu Literature
The Romance Tradition in Urdu
Like King Arthur in Europe, the Persian hero Amir Hamzah has fought and connived his way through eight centuries of adventure throughout the Islamic world. Here is a new translation of a version of his tale, told in Urdu in India, and set down and first published in 1871. Includes a glossary with pronunciation. No index. Annotation copyright Book N
Iqbal
Day and Dastan
Intizar Husain. Day and Dastan: Two Novellas. Translated by Nishat Zaidi and Alok Bhalla. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2018. 190 pp.; Rs. 395.In her introduction to this set of two novellas, Nishat Zaidi describes Intizar Husain as cultivating “the aesthetics of the banal” (7). She finds that Day, the longer and more realistic of the two novellas, “abounds in such enervating details of the daily and the mundane that at times the reader feels suffocat…
The Sky in an Ant’s Egg
Some of the most important structural patterns and devices used in individual ghazal verses by the famous poet Mirza Asadullah Khan ‘Ghalib’ are identified and analyzed; their literary effectiveness is illustrated with examples and discussion. In particular, the paper considers two such patterns. One set of verses have a ‘twist’ to them, such that the reader (or, ideally, hearer) is first misled or confused, then at the last possible moment is su…
Sitarah-e imtiyaz
Ghalib
Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Urdu (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works)