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The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature

Name: The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature
ISBN: 9780299091248

Ihab Habib Hassan

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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. 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.

Категории:

Arts - History & Criticism

Година:

1982

Издание:

2, Revised

Издателство:

The University of Wisconsin Press

Език:

english

Страници:

338