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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

Ihab Hassan

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Ihab Hassan

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

Ihab Hassan

Ihab Hassan

Ihab Hassan

Born: October 17, 1925

Died: September 10, 2015 (aged 89)

Bio: Ihab Habib Hassan was an Arab American literary theorist and writer born in Egypt.

Known for:

The dismemberment of Orpheus (1971)
The postmodern turn (1987)
Between the Eagle and the Sun (1996)
Selves at risk (1990)

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