Since the inception of twentieth century, the tradition of linguistic analysis acquired prominence in the field of literary criticism. Tremendous advancement in philosophical systems based on language ... Read More
The mainstream postmodernism has led western mind to a kind of disillusionment and a consequent disenchantment with the existential human yearnings for a historical anchoring without which humanity ca ... Read More
Majeed Amjad’s concept of man is distinct from the one his contemporary held. Early period of Majeed Amjad’s poetry is replete with the traditional concept of nature, according to which she is to be c ... Read More
Gautama Buddha’s thoughts, ideas, and teachings have had a profound effect not only on the minds of common people from all parts of the world but also upon great poets of all ages. Ghalib, the great p ... Read More
In the last four decades, many travelogues of Iran have been written by Pakistani tourists in Urdu. These travelogues narrate a whole range of features of the Iranian society. Conspicuously, the Irani ... Read More
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa is one of the most eminent literary figures of Latin America from recent past. With eighteen novels to his credit, he has written extensively on other genres (such as dr ... Read More
Intizar Hussain was an eminent fiction writer, critic, columnist, and a trendsetter in Urdu fiction, particularly. In post-partition Urdu fiction, he came to subvert the very paradigm of writing ficti ... Read More
The theme of epidemics has been traced in the world literary works since antiquity. In ancient times, epidemics were considered as a divine punishment to men for their sins. Identifying pandemic as a ... Read More
Sadat Hasan Manto is now widely acknowledged as a great short story writer of Urdu. He was a creative genius, indeed. Among other things, deep psychological insights of human behaviors and personalit ... Read More
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) is undoubtedly the first mental health professional who defined not only dynamics of the psychology of colonialism but also elaborated the phenomenology of it from the perspec ... Read More
Ameer Ahmed Minai was an illustrious poet and a writer. He wrote poetry in almost every genre including ghaẓal, na‘at, qaṣīda, maṡnavī, rubā‘ī, salām, sehrā, keh mukarni, pahēlī, tarkīb band, and tarj ... Read More
The Persian manuscript under discussion—Iqbāl Nāma-i Sa‘ādat Āyāt by Maulvi Muhammad Azam Bahawalpuri—is part of unpublished political history of the State of Bahawalpur. It was written under the orde ... Read More
This paper endeavours to identify the sources of Urdu script through a comparative study of the letters and features of various scripts. To this end, not only have the views of researchers and histori ... Read More
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