Ihab Hassan quotes

Ihab Hassan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

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“Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.”
-- Ihab Hassan

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“Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.”
-- Ihab Hassan

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“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

Source : Ihab Habib Hassan (1980). “The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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“Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.”
-- Ihab Hassan

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