Ihab Hassan Quotes
- 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…
- Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
- 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…
- Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the…