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Title تجزیدیت (Abstractionism) اور ماورائے حقیقت (Surrealism) ، نظری مباحث اور اطلاق: انور سجاد کے منتخب افسانوں کا تکنیکی مطالعہ

Author(s) Faiza Mazhar Alvi

Abstract Abstractionism and Surrealism are two modernist trends and techniques used in literature, in early 20th century, priorly used in Art of Painting.These techniques have a great impact of Freud’ “Theory of Unconsciousness” and “Theory of Psychoanalysis”.In western fiction and then in Urdu fiction writings,these techniques used to achieve the reality of psychology of humans,their desires,thinking’s,fantasies which a human cannot express publically due to the societies restrictions, should be expressed at individual level without any restrictions.Abstractionism and Surrealism have some techniques as stream of consciousness, free Association of thoughts.Dreamy,Ambiguity and Soliloquy to express the hidden realities of human unconsciousness.My research investigates, how Abstractionism and Surrealism affected by the theories of Freud’s and how it affects fiction writing in literature, specifically, Urdu short stories of Anwar Sajjad, in mid of 20th century. And why abstractionism and surrealism could not make its place in Urdu fiction writing and was unacceptable because of its non-story trait, characters without names, no concept of time and place, abstraction and its unrealistic approach towards life including semilarities and differences between these both trends. The study has been divided into four chapters. First chapter presents, the origins of abstractionism and surrealism, their psychological and literary background, techniques and the criticism of selected critiques on modern Urdu short story writing. Second chapter presents, the implementation of abstractionism on selected short stories of Anwar Sajjad.Third chapter presents, the implementation of surrealism on the selected short stories of Anwar Sajjad.These short stories are taken from the collection of short stories books “Choraha”,“Istarey”and“Aaj”.Forth and last chapter presents, concluding analysis of research including research overview, results and recommendations.

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Language Urdu

Publication Date 2022-04-25

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