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In quest of nothing : selected essays, 1998-2008 / by Ihab Hassan ; edited by Klaus Stierstorfer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hassan, Ihab, 1925-2015.
- Series:
- AMS studies in modern literature ; no. 29.
- AMS studies in modern literature, 0270-2983 ; no. 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature, Modern.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : AMS Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Autobiography and travel
- In no strange land: sections of a memoir
- Food of the gods
- Australian journeys
- Maps and stories
- Geopolitics and postcolonial studies
- Queries for postcolonial studies
- Eagle, the olive branch, and the dream: changing perceptions of America in the world
- Terrible simplicity is born: fifteen rocks in the gardens of violence
- Changelings in Janglish: or, how Australian is it?
- Postmodernism and beyond
- Beyond postmodernism: toward an aesthetic of trust
- Realism redux: a postmodern perspective
- Postmodernism? a self-interview
- Spirit, truth, trust, and the void
- Expense of spirit in postmodern times: between nihilism and belief
- Authority of the void
- Eureka file: the roles of belief, chance, and the void in innovation
- Way we have become: a surfeit of seeming
- Envoy: empty attachment, a story.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780404615994
- 0404615996
- OCLC:
- 608687163
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