The Dismemberment of Orpheus
Author | : Ihab Hassan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ihab Hassan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ihab Hassan |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780299091248 |
In this book, the first edition of which was published in 1971 by Oxford University Press, Ihab Hassan takes Orphic dismemberment and regeneration as his metaphor for a radical crisis in art and language, culture and consciousness, which prefigures postmodern literature. The modern Orpheus, he writes, "sings on a lyre without strings." Thus, his sensitive critique traces a hypothetical line from Sade through four modern authors--Hemingway, Kafka, Genet, and Beckett--to a literature still to come. But the line also breaks into two Interludes, one concerning 'Pataphysics, Dada, and Surrealism, and the other concerning Existentialism and Aliterature. Combining literary history, brief biography, and critical analysis, Hassan surrounds these authors with a complement of avant-garde writers whose works also foreshadow the postmodern temper. These include Jarry, Apollinaire, Tzara, Breton, Sartre, Camus, Nathalie Sarraute, Robbe-Grillet, and in America, Cage, Salinger, Ginsberg, Barth, and Burroughs. Hassan takes account also of related contemporary developments in art, music, and philosophy, and of many works of literary theory and criticism. For this new edition, Hassan has added a new preface and postface on the developing character of postmodernism, a concept which has gained currency since the first edition of this work, and which he himself has done much to theorize.
Author | : Ihab Habib Hassan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literature, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ihab Hassan |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1985-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780252011665 |
Author | : Ihab Hassan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107038219 |
In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
Author | : William Keith Guthrie |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1993-10-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780691024998 |
The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did Orpheus, in fact, exist? His influence on Greek thought is undeniable, but his disciples left little of substance behind them. Indeed, their Orphic precepts have been lost to time. W.K.C. Guthrie attempts to uncover and define Orphism by following its circuitous path through ancient history. He tackles this daunting task with the determination of a detective and the analytical rigor of a classical scholar. He ferries his readers with him on a singular voyage of discovery.
Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2023-12-21 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
Green Hills of Africa is a work of nonfiction by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Much of the narrative describes Hemingway's adventures hunting in East Africa, interspersed with ruminations about literature and authors. Generally the East African landscape Hemingway describes is in the region of Lake Manyara in Tanzania.
Author | : Ihab Hassan |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ihab Hassan |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780809312962 |
Like The Cross-Legged Scribe he describes so vividly, Ihab Hassan lives under Medu-netcher, the sign of the word. For Hassan, a critic is far more than a conservator or maker of judgments. In his work he has investigated not only the state of current literature but the thoughts and feelings that inform it. "The important questions before the human race are not literary questions," he acknowledges in Paracriticisms (1975). "They are questions of consciousness-- reason, dream, love." If humanity, as Hassan's work progressively suggests, is being transformed by a new universal consciousness, it is appropriate, perhaps essential, that critics such as he examine their own evolution as thinking and feeling beings. Out of Egypt, Hassan has never returned, preferring instead the continuing journey: "In journeys, we hear the cadences of the universe itself, and endure our death, going hence, coming hither. 'Ripeness is all.'" The process of "ripening" is dependent in this inter-textual age upon the blending of minds into minds, voices into voices, making it necessary for Hassan to weave into his narrative brief essays, citations, and quotations--including some from his previous work.