Half-drawn arrows of meaning : a phenomenological approach to ambiguity and semantics in the Urdu Ghazal
In this paper I explore the role of ambiguity in the creation of meaning in the Urdu ghazal. Ghazal, the predominant genre of Urdu poetry, consists of a series of thematically unrelated yet metrically and prosodically related couplets, each densely packed with multiple and complex meanings. Ambiguit...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3219 |