The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern LiteratureUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1982 - 315 pagina's 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. |
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Lyre Without Strings | 3 |
CHAPTER I | 24 |
CHAPTER II | 48 |
CHAPTER III | 80 |
The Authority of Ambiguity | 110 |
From Existentialism to Aliterature | 139 |
CHAPTER VI | 177 |
Imagination Ending | 210 |
The Vanishing Form | 247 |
Toward a Concept of Postmodernism | 259 |