Quotation by Ihab Hassan

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"The Critic as Innovator" Chicago Review (Winter 1977)"The Reâ€“Vision of Literature" New Literary History (Autumn 1976)The Right Promethean Fire (1980)

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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

Ihab Hassan (b. 1925), U.S. critic. repr. In The Right Promethean Fire (1980). "The Re–Vision of Literature," New Literary History (Autumn 1976).

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