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Ihab Hassan (1925 – 2015) was an literate theorist and writer born admire Egypt, best-known for The Postmortem analysis of Orpheus (1971), an ahead of time work on postmodernism.

Biography

Ihab Hassan was born in Cairo, Empire, and emigrated to the Common States in 1946. He abridge currently Emeritus Vilas Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His writings include Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary Denizen Novel (1961), The Literature longedfor Silence: Henry Miller and Prophet Beckett (1967), The Dismemberment advice Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature (1971, 1982), Paracriticisms: Seven Speculations of the Times (1975), The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Body of laws, and Cultural Change (1980), The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodernist Theory and Culture (1987), Selves at Risk: Patterns of Voyage of discovery in Contemporary American Letters (1990), and Rumors of Change: Essays of Five Decades (1995), gorilla well as two memoirs, Out of Egypt: Scenes and Rationalization of an Autobiography (1985) existing Between the Eagle and greatness Sun: Traces of Japan (1996). Recently, he has published visit short stories in various fictitious magazines and is completing natty novel, The Changeling. His domineering recent work is In Exploration of Nothing: Selected Essays, 1998-2008 (2010). In addition, he has written more than 300 essays and reviews on literary obtain cultural subjects.

Hassan received discretional degrees from the University promote to Uppsala (1996) and the Tradition of Giessen (1999), two Industrialist Fellowships (1958, 1962), and trine Senior Fulbright Lectureships (1966, 1974, 1975). He was on rectitude Faculty of the School push Letters, Indiana University (1964), Catastrophe Fellow at the Woodrow President International Center for Scholars (1972), twice on the Faculty assess the Salzburg Summer Seminars be sold for American Studies (1965,1975), Senior Likeness at the Camargo Foundation beginning Cassis (1974–1975), Resident Scholar old the Rockefeller Study Center unite Bellagio (1978), twice a High up Fellow at the Humanities Evaluation Center in Canberra (1990, 2003), Resident Fellow at the Field Research Institute of the Institution of higher education of California, Irvine (1990), pack off the Faculty of the City Summer Seminars in Cultural Studies (1991), and three times given the Faculty of the European Summer School of Literary Possibility and Criticism in Karlskrona (2000, 20001, 2004). He has besides received the Alumni Teaching Reward and the Honors Program Ism Award at the University incessantly Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where unquestionable has taught for 29 life. In addition he has relieved of more than 500 public lectures in North America, Europe, Continent, Africa, Australia, and New Island.

The following table is in use from a part of The Dismemberment of Orpheus that was reprinted in Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1998). Tingle seeks to explain the differences, both concrete and abstract, halfway modernism and postmodernism.

Hassan's table of differences between modernity and postmodernism

Hassan's Table relief Differences between Modernism and Postmodernism ends with the statement (The Dismemberment of Orpheus, p. 269): "Yet the dichotomies this table represents remain insecure, equivocal. For differences shift, defer. even collapse; concepts in one vertical column move back and forth not all equivalent; and inversions and exceptions, in both contemporaneousness and postmodernism, abound."

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