Out of Egypt: Scenes and Arguments of an Autobiography

by Ihab Hassan and Professor Ihab Hassan PhD

Like The Cross-Legged Scribe he de­scribes so vividly, Ihab Hassan lives under Medu-netcher, the sign of the word.

For Hassan, a critic is far more than a conservator or maker of judgments. In his work he has investigated not only the state of current literature but the thoughts and feelings that inform it. "The important questions before the human race are not literary questions," he acknowledges in Paracriticisms (1975)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809312964
• ISBN13: 9780809312962
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"