Rumors of change
Subtitle: essays of five decades
By: Ihab Hassan.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: These essays span five decades and mirror American culture in the postwar years. They represent Hassan's various topics, styles, critical methods, and social attitudes. From formalism in the forties to multiculturalism in the nineties, from existential engagements to postmodern dubieties, from Paul Bowles, Jean Stafford, and William Burroughs to Peter Matthiessen, Marge Piercey, and Christina Dodwell, the essays move with the momentum of history. But they move critically.

In sympathy with their subjects, they challenge nonetheless the cant and pieties of their moment.
Notes: Includes index.