Ihab Hassan – The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature

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.   źródło opisu: http://books.google.es