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title	:	Rumors of Change : Essays of Five Decades
author	:	Hassan, Ihab Habib.
publisher	:	University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0817308024
print isbn13	:	9780817308025
ebook isbn13	:	9780585140889
language	:	English
subject	American literature--20th century--History and criticism, English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	PS221.H364 1995eb
ddc	:	810/.9/005
subject	:	American literature--20th century--History and criticism, English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Page iii Rumors of Change Essays of Five Decades Ihab Hassan The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa and London

Page iv Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set ( http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif ), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks. Copyright 1995 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Cameron Poulter The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hassan, Ihab Habib, 1925 Rumors of change: essays of five decades / Ihab Hassan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8173-0802-4 (alk. paper) 1. American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. English literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. I. Title. PS221.H364 1995 810' .9'005dc20 95-2966 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available

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Page ix CONTENTS Introduction xi Part One: Early Appraisals (1954-1963) 1 1. Paul Bowles: The Pilgrim as Prey 3 2. Jean Stafford: The Expense of Style and Scope of Sensibility 17 3. William Burroughs: The Subtracting Machine 36 Part Two: Literary Themes and Genres (1959-1984) 53 4. The Antihero in Modern British and American Fiction 55 5. Cities of Mind, Urban Words 68 6. Timely Pleasures: Sane and In-Sane 85 Part Three: Perspectives on Postmodernism (1975-1989) 97 7. Joyce, Beckett, and the Postmodern Imagination 99 8. Imagination and Belief: Wallace Stevens and William James 120 9. Beyond Postmodernism? Theory, Sense, and Pragmatism 126 Part Four: Criticsm and Theory (1989-1994) 139 10. Fictions of Power: Ideological Discourse in the Humanities 141 11. Confessions of a Reluctant Critic or, the Resistance to Literature 152 12. Criticism in Our Clime: Parables of American Academe 166 Part Five: Travel, Autobiography, Geopolitics (1988-1994) 185 13. The Spirit of Quest in Contemporary American Letters 187

Page x 14. Motion and Mischief: Contemporary British Travel Writing 208 15. Japan and the United States: The Burden of Mutual Perception

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