Ihab Habib Hassan (Arabic: إيهاب حبيب حسن; October 17, 1925 – September 10, 2015) was an Egypt-born American literary theorist and writer.
[1] Ihab Hassan was born in Cairo, Egypt, and emigrated to the United States in 1946.
He also wrote more than 300 essays and reviews on literary and cultural subjects, and delivered over 500 public lectures in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
[citation needed] In The Dismemberment of Orpheus, Hassan set out the differences between modernism and postmodernism.
For differences shift, defer, even collapse; concepts in any one vertical column are not all equivalent; and inversions and exceptions, in both modernism and postmodernism, abound.