Ihab Hassan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ihab Hassan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ihab |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassan |
| SIGNATURE | HASSAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Visions of Art
This article is a brief meditation on ‘visions’ of art: do we mean concepts, ideas, manifestos concerned with art, or some ineffable visionary nature of art? Much art, past and present, speaks of bodily needs, of everyday angst, the horrors of war and a relentless history of traumas. Our capacity to respond to the world that we presently inhabit has become inured to shock, our empathy mediated by the simulacra of consumption. We are now witness t…
The authority of the void: A Kenotic Meditation in Five Parts
My topic demands clarification at the outset, but that clarification itself may seem enigmatic. A Zen master, asked by a disciple ‘Why are we here on earth?’, cackled and replied, ‘We aren’t’. Somewhere in that answer lies the authority of the void. The essay is in five parts, with internal breaks, like printer dingbats, and shifting moods as befits the subject
Embedded
Painting a Continent – or Nothing: A Personal Essay on a Theme In Contemporary Australian Art
Realism, Truth, and Trust in Postmodern Perspective
Beyond Postmodernism
Identity and Imagination: David Malouf and Hossein Valamanesh in Process
Para/Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture . Victor E. Taylor
The language of trust: Bernard Smith, global antipodean
Queries for Postcolonial studies
Philosophy and Literature - Volume 22, Number 2, October 1998
Counterpoints: Nationalism, colonialism, multiculturalism, etc., in personal perspective
Between the Eagle and the Sun: Traces of Japan
An invitation to voyage east leads Ihab Hassan to reflect on his origins in Egypt, on his home in America, and on his host country, Japan. Part memoir, part cultural perception, Between the Eagle and the records a journey, echoing the wanderers of eternity. The result is not a book about them, some alien people living on a distant island, but rather a book about the author himself, living among others, living and seeing himself sometimes as anoth…
Art / Spirit: Pictures At Two Exhibitions
Criticism in Our Clime: Parables of American Academe
ANNIVERSARIES. Time sweats. pause, mop our brows, cry as if for the first or last time: We are still here! Twenty-five years: yes, NLH has endured. It has come through. What more need we say? In academe we feed on watercress, fables, memory, nettles. speak criticism, theory, ideology, scholarship, sometimes the higher flummery. speak parables, too. That is how I want to speak, not lies but parables, as I look back on twice twenty-five years. I lo…
Confessions of a Reluctant Critic or, the Resistance to Literature
obscure disaffections?-to terminate my membership in the Modern Language Association. But then a letter from 10 Astor Place arrived, with this closing paragraph: Life membership is offered to you in appreciation for your long-standing commitment to the association and the profession. I hope you will enjoy the benefits of life membership for many years to come. Let the irony of timing pass; in our postmodern clime, we all take irony in our stride.…
Halfway to Revolution: Investigation and Crisis in the Work of Henry Adams, William James, and Gertrude Stein
Exploring Postmodernism
On the Problem of the Postmodern
Out of Egypt: Scenes and Arguments of an Autobiography
Making Sense: The Trials of Postmodern Discourse
M rAKING SENSE: one might take that title, in its strongest sense, as an inquiry into what it means to be human. Prodigious query. I quickly fall back on my subtitle, presumptuous enough, which signals the trials of knowledge, of discourse, in our postmodern moment. But my text is itself part of that moment. How, then, can I reflect on the crisis of meaning, which my meanings already reflect, and still make sense of the crisis of sense in our age…
Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective
The Culture of Postmodernism
Passage from Egypt: Excerpt from an Imaginary Autobiography
Ihab Hassan, Passage from Egypt: Excerpt from an Imaginary Autobiography, SubStance, Vol. 11/12, Vol. 11, no. 4 - Vol. 12, no. 1, Issue 37-38: A Special Issue from the Center for Twentieth Century Studies (1982/1983), pp. 192-211
The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change
The Question of Postmodernism
The question is in many parts, yet it comes to this: can we perceive a new phenomenon in contemporary culture generally, and in contemporary literature particularly, that deserves a name? If so, will the provisional rubric postmodernism serve? How does this phenomenon-let us call it postmodernism-relate itself to other concepts, such as modernism or the avant-garde? And what theoretical and historical difficulties does it conceal
The Culture of Postmodernism
Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective
Beyond Postmodernism
Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel
The Description for this book, Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel, will be forthcoming
Counterpoints: Nationalism, colonialism, multiculturalism, etc., in personal perspective
Making Sense: The Trials of Postmodern Discourse
M rAKING SENSE: one might take that title, in its strongest sense, as an inquiry into what it means to be human. Prodigious query. I quickly fall back on my subtitle, presumptuous enough, which signals the trials of knowledge, of discourse, in our postmodern moment. But my text is itself part of that moment. How, then, can I reflect on the crisis of meaning, which my meanings already reflect, and still make sense of the crisis of sense in our age…
Queries for Postcolonial studies
Philosophy and Literature - Volume 22, Number 2, October 1998
On the Problem of the Postmodern
Out of Egypt: Scenes and Arguments of an Autobiography
PostmodernISM
Psychoanalysis and American Literary Criticism
Towards a Method in Myth
S INCE ANCIENT GREECE the subject of has endured the interpretations of poet, historian, philosopher, philologist, anthropologist, and psychologist.' The outcome is a remarkable constellation of postulates, hypotheses, and conflicting opinions. In the twentieth century two disciplines, and anthropology, have emerged as best suited to cope with myth. Their advance in exploring has been hampered by mutual suspicions, suspicions both of method and o…
Towards a Method in Myth
S INCE ANCIENT GREECE the subject of has endured the interpretations of poet, historian, philosopher, philologist, anthropologist, and psychologist.' The outcome is a remarkable constellation of postulates, hypotheses, and conflicting opinions. In the twentieth century two disciplines, and anthropology, have emerged as best suited to cope with myth. Their advance in exploring has been hampered by mutual suspicions, suspicions both of method and o…
Criticism as Mimesis
Research Article| October 01 1956 Criticism as Mimesis Ihab H. Hassan Ihab H. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1956) 55 (4): 473–486. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-55-4-473 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ihab H. Hassan; Criticism as Mimesis. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1956; 55 (4): 473–486. doi: https://doi.org/…
The Idea of Adolescence in American Fiction
HALF A CENTURY AGO, we used to say in America that the great and abiding theme of our literature was the theme of Innocence. Today, after fifty full years of strange history, we find it easier to claim that America has at last come of age, that it has, in fact, reached an end to innocence, and that its writers have plainly risen to the assumptions of a world literature. It would seem that the song of innocence has finally given way to the burden …
Of Time and Emblematic Reconciliation: Notes on the Poetry of Edwin Muir
Research Article| July 01 1959 Of Time and Emblematic Reconciliation: Notes on the Poetry of Edwin Muir Ihab H. Hassan Ihab H. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1959) 58 (3): 427–439. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-58-3-427 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ihab H. Hassan; Of Time and Emblematic Reconciliation: Notes on the …
Psychoanalysis and American Literary Criticism
The Emerging Hero in Fiction
Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel
Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel
The Description for this book, Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel, will be forthcoming
The Adolescent in the American Novel: 1920-1960
PostmodernISM
Polemic
Eclecticism and Orthodoxy in Criticism
Remembrance of Orpheus: A Paracritical Review in Six Voices, One Silent
Liberations: New Essays on the Humanities in Revolution
The New Gnosticism: Speculations on an Aspect of the Postmodern Mind
Contemporary American Literature 1945-1972: An Introduction
Abstractions
Dreaming Our Future
Paracriticisms, Postmodernism, and Prophecy
A Re-Vision of Literature
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, permit me to begin with a brief pretext. This is how this text once began. There were listeners then, spectators; now there are readers. What we need is.... But I should start the present text properly, with a few words about its origin, its theme, and its form. The text was intended as an address to the Midwest Modern Language Association, 1975. The topic of the plenary session was Response to Vision: Judging the Value of L…
A Letter: Performance in Postmodern Culture
Fiery Numbers and Strange Productions: A Cento of Thoughts on Ihab Hassan
The Question of Postmodernism
The question is in many parts, yet it comes to this: can we perceive a new phenomenon in contemporary culture generally, and in contemporary literature particularly, that deserves a name? If so, will the provisional rubric postmodernism serve? How does this phenomenon-let us call it postmodernism-relate itself to other concepts, such as modernism or the avant-garde? And what theoretical and historical difficulties does it conceal
The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change
Passage from Egypt: Excerpt from an Imaginary Autobiography
Ihab Hassan, Passage from Egypt: Excerpt from an Imaginary Autobiography, SubStance, Vol. 11/12, Vol. 11, no. 4 - Vol. 12, no. 1, Issue 37-38: A Special Issue from the Center for Twentieth Century Studies (1982/1983), pp. 192-211
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