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This essay examines Adabī dunyā, or Literary World, to argue for a dialectical relationship between world literature and the Urdu magazine. Adabī dunyā carved a niche for itself in a competitive Indian magazine ecology by positioning itself as a worldly and world-class magazine in terms of its content and material form. How this publication circulated world literature was inspired by the educational impetus of the ‘ilmī o adabī magazine genre (roughly translatable as “educational and literary”). Adabī dunyā mediated readers’ appreciation of world authors by relying on a range of forms such as the survey essay, image, and original Urdu texts inspired by those authors. By focusing on its representation of Dante Alighieri, I show how the magazine sought to nurture a multidimensional relationship between Indian readers and foreign writers. In so doing, Adabī dunyā produced a local iteration of world literature centered on Urdu culture.
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| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
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| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 1880 | 760 | 53 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 383 | 24 | 8 |
| PDF-Downloads | 720 | 44 | 5 |
This essay examines Adabī dunyā, or Literary World, to argue for a dialectical relationship between world literature and the Urdu magazine. Adabī dunyā carved a niche for itself in a competitive Indian magazine ecology by positioning itself as a worldly and world-class magazine in terms of its content and material form. How this publication circulated world literature was inspired by the educational impetus of the ‘ilmī o adabī magazine genre (roughly translatable as “educational and literary”). Adabī dunyā mediated readers’ appreciation of world authors by relying on a range of forms such as the survey essay, image, and original Urdu texts inspired by those authors. By focusing on its representation of Dante Alighieri, I show how the magazine sought to nurture a multidimensional relationship between Indian readers and foreign writers. In so doing, Adabī dunyā produced a local iteration of world literature centered on Urdu culture.
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 1880 | 760 | 53 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 383 | 24 | 8 |
| PDF-Downloads | 720 | 44 | 5 |