Cet auteur explore les transitions complexes entre le modernisme et le postmodernisme dans la littérature américaine contemporaine. Son travail aborde des thèmes tels que l'innocence radicale, le silence et la transformation des paradigmes culturels. Grâce à une analyse littéraire minutieuse, il révèle la nature en constante évolution de l'expression artistique. Sa perspective sur la littérature se caractérise par une compréhension profonde des formes et des idées artistiques changeantes.
The narrative captures a personal journey that resonates with the experiences of eternal wanderers, focusing on the author's introspection rather than depicting an external group. It explores themes of identity and self-discovery, revealing how the journey reflects the author's own life and insights, ultimately transforming the journey into a profound exploration of the self.
The description for this book, Radical Studies in the Contemporary American Novel, will be forthcoming.
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.
Formen, Tendenzen und Autoren der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur (1945-72, Bellow, Mailer, Vonnegut, Updike, Ginsberg, Williams, Miller, Albee u.a.).