TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ameena Kazi Ansari,  Ruchi Nagpal (Editors)
TI  - Premchand on literature and life : selections : translated from the Hindi
SN  - 9789350027394
U1  - 891.443 ANS 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Aakar Books
KW  - Literature
KW  - Hindi literature History and criticism
N1  - index
N2  - Premchand on Literature and Life is a collection of Premchand's (1880-1936) fifty non-fiction prose pieces translated into English. The selected pieces in the collection compirse his editorials and articles which appeared in literary magazines and periodicals like Hans and Zamana, and cover a period from the early 1920s till 1936. In them, Premchand emerges as a perspective literary critic and social commentator, holding forth on literature, his literary world, and the socio-cultural milieu of his ties. His keen observations and insightful critique are a call for evolving appropriate processes and agencies to encourage literary creativity and evaluation. In the selected prose pieces, Premchand views are like a prism through which can be assessed a nation's literary quotient
ER  -