Criticism and Research on Urdu Novel: Some Basic Perspectives
Keywords:
Conceptual Criticism, Urdu Novel, Criticism and Research, Author, Author, Text and Reader Triangle, Contextual, Textual and ideological approachesAbstract
No doubt Urdu Novel has its recognition in contemporary international literary circles. So we have to adopt all scientific tools for the criticism and research of Urdu Novel. This article illustrates and emphasizes the basic relation of criticism and research. The triangle of literature which is based on Author, Text and Reader is considered as a key feature that provides the main perspective of criticism and research. Thus three basic approaches are used respectively, contextual approach, textual approach and ideological approach which are discussed in this article. It elucidates these approaches as well with some allied tools for the criticism and research of Urdu Novel. Some conceptual postulates have been formulated with logical reasoning.
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1. Ahmed , Kaleem ud din , novel ka fun, including : qaumi zabaan. May 2012ء, Karachi : anjuman taraqqi urdu, , P : 25
2. Hawthorn, Jeremy,2005, 'Studying the Novel', 5th Ed,Hodder Arnold, London, p 68.
3. Ibid, P 186
4. Ibid, P 187
5. Abid Ali Abid, Usloob, Lahore: Sang-i-meel publications, 2001
6. Hawthorn, Jeremy,2005, 'Studying the Novel', 5th Ed,Hodder Arnold, London, p188
7. Ibid, P186
8. Ibid, P 189
۔9''All novels happen to be related to many other forms of discourse. The 'art' of novel always has to contend with the fact that the novel is an essentially compromised form. The novel, as we know it, grew out of earlier types of literature and can not be understood except by reference to them.'' Jane Smiley, 2006,'Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel', Anchor Books, New York,pp 178.
۔10Polemic:The piece of writting or a speach in which a person strongly Attacks or defends a particular opinion , personal idea or set of beliefs.
11. For detail see pages 178 to 203 of the above-mentioned book by Jane Smiley.
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