Ihab Hassan
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- "No, I didn't coin the term [postmodernism]. Some claim that a British painter called John Watkins Chapman used the term casually in the 1870s. Since then, Federico de Onis, Bernard Smith, Dudley Fitts, Arnold Toynbee, Charles Olson, Irving Howe, and Harry Levin have all used the term variously--with diverse meanings and degrees of insistence--before I did." --Ihab Hassan
Ihab Hassan (born 1925) is an Egyptian literary theorist, best-known for The Dismemberment of Orpheus.
He was born in Cairo, Egypt, and emigrated to the United States in 1946. Currently he is Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. His writings include Radical Innocence: The Contemporary American Novel (1961), The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature (1971) and The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture (1987).
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