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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 492–507.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Kristina Rogahn Abstract This article investigates multiple sources for the theory and criticism of the taṉippāṭal , a premodern genre of short poetic utterance in Tamil. It argues that although scholars have focused on Tamil scholastic discourse as a source for literary knowledge, certain genres...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 543–545.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Alireza Doostdar Abstract This afterword comments on the three articles in the special section titled “Islam and Regimes of Evidence.” Drawing on the Bakhtin circle's theory of speech genres, Doostdar examines Islamic evidentiary utterances as forms of speech with distinctive internal and external...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 381–387.
Published: 01 August 2022
... during the reigns of the Mughal emperors Akbar and Jahangir. Therefore, though the Rajasthani literary genres preceded the riti movement of literary theory, the fact that later Rajasthani rhetoricians drew from riti ideas emphasizes that literary genres can persist for centuries before they are theorized...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 234–248.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Mehtap Ozdemir Abstract Building on recent scholarship on the novel and Middle Eastern modernities, this article examines how Ottoman intellectuals theorized the novel as a realist genre in the nineteenth century as a way of including Ottoman literary knowledge within global novel theories...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 433–436.
Published: 01 December 2024
...: The Taṉippāṭal , Tamil Genre Theory, and Comparative Literary Criticisms of South Asia,” examines theory and criticism of the Tamil taṉippāṭal , a diverse and ill-defined genre of poetic utterance in medieval and early modern South India. Rogahn suggests that these poems spotlight important relations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 460–475.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... Kuru, “Gazel as Genre,” 75 . 64. On poetry as an imaginative site of worldmaking, see Ramachandran, The Worldmakers ; on the idea of lyric thinking, see Ramachandran, Lyric Thinking . 65. Recent critical studies and surveys include Culler, Theory of the Lyric ; Jackson, “Lyric...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 381–387.
Published: 01 August 2011
... the same establishing a new tradition. Like the tensions generically social act as the work they critique. between political and aesthetic diaspora in Da- Using genre theory, and specifically the notion bashi’s analysis of theater, Nanquette’s explo- of genre as social act, Motlagh notes the rhetori...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 170–180.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Nalini , ed. Genres littéraires en Inde . Paris : Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle , 1994 . Bauer Thomas Neuwirth Angelika eds. Ghazal as World Literature, vol. 1, Transformations of a Literary Genre . Beirut : Ergon Verlag , 2005 . Bronner Yigal . Extreme Poetry...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 114–121.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Anju Kapur © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 References Ahmad , Aijaz , 1992 . In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (London, New York: Verso, 1992). Appiah , Anthony Kwame , 1992 . In My Father's House (New York: Oxford University Press). Brennan , Timothy...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 379.
Published: 01 December 2024
... to consider the role in and of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for the academy and the academic. Where does theory reside? What is the scholar's position with respect to their subject of study? This section comes at a critical juncture in our present; it informs a critical perspective on de-centering...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 45–59.
Published: 01 August 2004
... unfortunate and The major differences frequently lie at the level of inaccurate representations of riti literary culture. The detail rather than at the level of overarching theory. San- profusion of the ritigranth genre in particular has stimu- skrit traditions were a respected foundation upon which lated...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 521–537.
Published: 01 August 2011
... as an amusing, often surprising, and informa- gest the distinction between typical glossaries 522 tive compilation of lexical items that were in- and HJ  as a unique appropriation of this genre.5 corporated from various Indian languages into I also draw on recent work...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 133–146.
Published: 01 May 2010
...,” Communication Theory 16 History (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, Richard Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline ( 2 0 0 6 ) : 4 1 1   –   2 6...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 476–491.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Meghan Hartman Abstract This article works toward a theory of lyric in the literary corpus of Mīrājī (1912–1949), an Urdu poet, translator, and critic. The article argues that the lyric is an especially salient place to evaluate the phenomenality of such a relationship between self and world...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 591–603.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., my argument also draws on and quali- fies Mikhail Bakhtin’s distinction between the novel and epic genres (in his argument relating the Middle East x-1891588 Vol. 32, No. 3, 2012 Research conducted...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 437–446.
Published: 01 December 2024
...: An Indian Love Lament of Bilhaṇa Kavi . Edited by Tadpatrikar S. N. Poona : Oriental Book Agency , 1966 . Cameron Sharon . Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1979 . Culler Jonathan . Theory of the Lyric . Cambridge...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 63–67.
Published: 01 May 2019
... to the emergence of new genres, such as the novel and the short story, and new literary institutions, such as the journal, the association, and the modern colonial education system. It is also associated with a new diglossia between the colonial language (typically English or French) and local or transregional...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 336–354.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Andrew J. Eisenberg Employing approaches from ethnomusicology and vocal anthropology, Eisenberg undertakes an interpretive-ethnographic analysis of Indian taarab , a genre of Swahili song on the Kenyan coast that features Swahili words set to Hindi film song melodies performed in a distinctly...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 515–527.
Published: 01 December 2009
...- Punjabi-Braj histories indicate that Bhangu and graphic genres to reach new audiences through Rao made conscious and deliberate choices re- a complex representation of the Sikh past that garding their own reading of the past in terms transformed...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 411–424.
Published: 01 August 2011
... conventionally separate genres — memoirs what Iranian American scholars object to is the 413 and reportage — are imprecise. Further, as Gil- memoir’s prioritization of personal accounts lian Whitlock points out to Mottahedeh in Soft over scholarly evidence or methodologies, it is Weapons...