اردو افسانوی تنقید میں نئے پیراڈائم کی جستجو

Abstract

Dr. Nasir Abbas Nayyer is an eminent urdu critic and short story  writer. His critique covers all major genres of urdu literature. This article provides an insight into his overall critical thinking while specifically analyzing his fictional criticism. His fictional criticism is divided into two parts: theoretical and practical criticism. The study has been carried out to locate the methodology and applicability of his theoretical criticism into his praxis. The study demonstrates Nayyer adopts a scientific style in criticism and raises questions instead of making claims. Since his intellectual inclination is towards modernity, he prefers mostly the modern short story writers. As a part of methodological choice,he selects theme based short stories rather than ideological ones. Nayyer examines the text in multiple perspectives in order to acess the the text as a whole. Overall, dismissing traditional critical ideas about fiction as inadequate, his critique expands and deepens the the canvas of urdu fictional criticism by exploring new paradigms