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The untranslatable refrain: radif, rhyme and the limits of the English ghazal
Dr. Fatima Sheikh
Lighthouse Review of Literature & Cultural Studies2025Literature & Cultural Studies19 citations
… essay reads that account against the form's own structural logic, arguing that what was left behind — the radif, the repeated word or phrase closing each couplet — is not an ornament but the mechanism by which the ghazal generates meaning …
https://doi.org/10.53456/lrlcs.2025.10.3.288
