History of english literature in urdu pdf

There is, however, another novel about the same civilization which looks at it with the tough-minded honesty of the artist who has transcended the emotional attitudes of his society. It is like the golden bowl of Henry James which has a crack, and the pity is that most critics have not paid much attention to the crack. This way of looking at life is flawed and sentimental and Twilight is a flawed novel. Thus if the symbols of the cat and Babban JanвЂ™s death signify that a cherished way of life is passing away, we are not told why it was cherished at all. He does adopt British dress but exploits women, indulges in self-pity and loves emotionality. But in the novel not even Asghar challenges Mir NihalвЂ™s way of life except in trivial ways. After all in his short story Two Sides of the pictureвЂ™ he does show the cruelty and moral turpitude of people like Mir Nihal. And this is strange because Ali had the reputation of being an iconoclast and a progressive writer. It is indeed a fault of the writerвЂ™s understanding of India that it should be so. The purple passages, the pseudophilosophical dictums, and the incomplete sentences, point out that the writer is relying on rhetorical devices in order to evoke pathos for a civilization to which he responds for personal reasons but which does not really deserve this response from the reader. The author hints at a profundity through them which is not really there. For the situation in itself does not evoke the response of inexpressible emotion which the ellipses seem to suggest. Most of the ellipses too suggest much more than is actually warranted by the situation. On this tortuous road of Life man goes on hoping that the next turn В°f the road will bring him in sight of the goal (TD, 128). Sometimes it is merely the Indian MuslimsвЂ™ penchant for using high- sounding words: For if it were not for hope men would commit suicide by the scores, and the world would remain a barren desert in which no oasis exists.

And it is not, 1 as Lawrence Brander contends, вЂ™the raised rhythms of biblioU cal EnglishвЂ™34 everytime (though BranderвЂ™s own quotation from Ali is indeed an example of appropriately used вЂ™raised rhythmвЂ™) it is used. There is no justification for such empty rhetoric as one finds towards the end of many chapters of Twilight. This falsifies reality because this Muslim grandeur was based on the exploited labour of Hindu peasants in the final analysis and, to go further into the past, in conquest and colonialism by the Muslims the very thing for which the British are being blamed. And a part of this attitude was to regard the past as having been very grand merely because it was the time of the domination of this class.

As I have already shown, Ali did share the emotional attitudes of this class. :^HY jf therefore, sentimental and its sentimentality is traceable to the romantic world view of the-Urdu sneaking middle class of which Ali is a member. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission in writing from the author and publisher Copyright : Tariq Rahman, 1991 First Published in Pakistan by Vanguard Books Pvt Lid Lahore Karachi Islamabad Peshawar Vanguard Books Pvt Ltd Head Office: 45 The Mall Lahore Pakistan Ph: 57783, 311064, Fax: 042-321680 Tlx: 47421 SCOOP (PK) Branch Office: D-212, KDA 1 A, Stadium Road, Karachi Ph: 423571,421564 Branch Office: Jinnah Super Market, Islamabad Ph: 822443, 814452 Printed at Intikhab i Jadeed Press, Abbot Road, Lahore Title designed by Ashraf Kama] ISBN: 969-402-031-X Hardback 969-402-030-1 PaperbackДedicated to my wife r вЂ™2.

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History of english literature in urdu pdf