Research Catalog

Title

In quest of nothing : selected essays, 1998-2008 / by Ihab Hassan ; edited by Klaus Stierstorfer.

Author

Hassan, Ihab, 1925-2015

Publication

New York : AMS Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stierstorfer, Klaus

Description

xv, 244 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

AMS studies in modern literature, 0270-2983 ; no. 29

Uniform Title

AMS studies in modern literature ; v. 29.

Subject

• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Postmodernism (Literature)
• Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism > Theory, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Autobiography and travel -- In no strange land: sections of a memoir -- Food of the gods -- Australian journeys -- Maps and stories -- Geopolitics and postcolonial studies -- Queries for postcolonial studies -- Eagle, the olive branch, and the dream: changing perceptions of America in the world -- Terrible simplicity is born: fifteen rocks in the gardens of violence -- Changelings in Janglish: or, how Australian is it? -- Postmodernism and beyond -- Beyond postmodernism: toward an aesthetic of trust -- Realism redux: a postmodern perspective -- Postmodernism? a self-interview -- Spirit, truth, trust, and the void -- Expense of spirit in postmodern times: between nihilism and belief -- Authority of the void -- Eureka file: the roles of belief, chance, and the void in innovation -- Way we have become: a surfeit of seeming -- Envoy: empty attachment, a story.

ISBN

• 9780404615994 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0404615996 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010015009

OCLC

• 608687163
• SCSB-12889654

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library