Guide to the Ihab Hassan papers MS.C.005
Existence and Location of Originals
1925 | Ihab Habib Hassan born in Cairo, Egypt on October 17th. |
1946 | Immigrates to the United States to study engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. |
1948 | Receives M.S. degree from University of Pennsylvania. |
1950 | Receives M.A. degree from University of Pennsylvania. |
1952 | Holds position as instructor in English at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
1953 | Receives Ph. D. degree in English literature from University of Pennsylvania. |
1954 | Begins as an instructor in English at Wesleyan University and becomes professor of English in 1962. |
1956 | Becomes a United States citizen. |
1961 | Radical Innocence: The Contemporary American Novel. |
1963 | Aspects du Hero Americain Contemporain. |
1966 | Fulbright lecturer in Grenoble, France. |
1968 | The Literature of Silence: Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett. |
1970 | Joins the faculty at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee as the Vilas Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature. |
1971 | The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature. |
1973 | Contemporary American Literature, 1945-1972. |
1974 | Fulbright lecturer in Nice, France. |
1975 | Paracriticisms: Seven Speculations of the Times. |
1980 | The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change. |
1986 | Out of Egypt: Fragments of an Autobiography. |
1987 | The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture. |
1990 | Selves at Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letter. |
1995 | Rumors of Change: Essays of Five Decades. |
1996 | Between the Eagle and the Sun: Traces of Japan. |
2015 | Died at at 89 in Milwaukee, WI. |
Collection Scope and Content Summary
- Series 1. Early writings, 1952-1984. 3.5 linear feet
- Series 2. Later writings, 1985-2000. 6 linear feet
- Series 3. Conference papers and public lectures, 1952-1999. 3 linear feet
- Series 4. Book reviews, 1959-1997. 1 linear feet
- Series 5. Biographical material, 1996-1998. 0.25 linear feet
- Series 6. Teaching material, 1953-1997. 0.5 linear feet
- Accession 2006-002. Minimally processed addition, circa 1999-2002. 0.5 linear feet
- Accession 2006-017. Minimally processed addition, 2004-2006. 0.5 linear feet
- Accession 2007-015. Minimally processed addition, 1974-2007. 3 linear feet
- Accession 2009-019. Minimally processed addition, 1953-2003. 7 linear feet
- Accession 2017-017. Minimally processed addition, 1976-2004. 1 linear foot
- Accession 2021-035. Minimally processed addition, 1990-2015. 2 linear feet
Early writings Series 1. 1952-1984
Series Scope and Content Summary
"Towards a Method in Myth" 1952
Offprint, with corrections 1952
"Baudelaire's Correspondences: The Dialectic of a Poetic Affinity" 1954
Offprint 1954
"Edith Sitwell and the Symbolist Tradition" 1955
Lecture, draft 1955
Original publication 1955
"Jean Stafford: The Expense of Style and the Scope of Sensibility" 1955
Original publication 1955
"Criticisms as Mimesis" 1956
Offprint 1956
"Egyptian Retrospect: A Partial View in Changing Perspective" 1956
Offprint 1956
"Thomas' 'The Tombstone When She Died' " 1956
Original publication 1956
"Rare, Quixotic Gesture: The Fiction of J.D. Salinger" 1957
Original publication 1957
"The Idea of Adolescence in American Fiction" 1958
Offprint 1958
"The Anti-Hero in Modern British and American Fiction" 1959
Offprint 1959
"Carson McCullers: The Alchemy of Love and Aesthetics of Pain" 1959
Original publication 1959
"Of Time and Emblematic Reconciliation: Notes on the Poetry of Edwin Muir" 1959
Offprint 1959
Original publication 1959
"The Victim: Images of Evil in Recent American Fiction" 1959
"The Victim: Colors of Darkness in Recent American Fiction," lecture draft 1958
Original publication 1959
"Birth of a Heroine" 1960
Original publication 1960
"The Daydream and Nightmare of Narcissus" 1960
Offprint 1960
Original publication, French translation 1961
"Love in the Modern American Novel: Expense of Spirit and Waste of Shame" 1960
Offprint 1960
Original publication 1960
"Saul Bellow: Five Faces of a Hero" 1960
Original publication 1960
"The Avant-Garde: Which Way is Forward?" 1961
Original publication 1961
Offprint 1962
"Hassan Comments on University Plan" 1961
Original publication 1961
"The Character of Post-War Fiction in America" 1962
"The Character of Post-War American Fiction," lecture draft 1960
Offprint 1962
Original publication 1962
Offprint, German translation 1987
"Conscience and Incongruity: The Fiction of Thomas Berger" 1962
Original publication 1962
"The Modern Movement in American Fiction" 1962
"Almost the Voice of Silence: The Later Novelettes of J.D. Salinger" 1963
Original publication 1963
"The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Reflections on Modern Culture, Language, and Literature" 1963
"The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Form and Antiform in Contemporary Literature," lecture draft 1962
Original publication 1963
"Modern Literature...a Review for the Teacher" 1963
Original publication 1963
"The Postwar Period in American Fiction" 1963
"The Subtracting Machine: The Work of William Burroughs" 1963
Original publication 1963
"The Way Down and Out: Spiritual Deflection in Recent American Fiction" 1963
"Deflection in Recent American Fiction," lecture draft 1962
Offprint 1963
Literary History of the United States (3rd edition) 1963
"The New Literature: World War II and After"
Publisher correspondence
"American Youth Today" 1964
"Beyond a Theory of Literature: Intimations of Apocalypse?" 1964
Offprint 1964
"Laughter in the Dark: The New Voice in American Fiction" 1964
Offprint 1964
Original publication 1964
"An Arab-American Conversation: Interview with Saleh Gawdat" 1965
Draft 1964
"The Novel of Outrage: A Minority Voice in Postwar American Fiction" 1965
"The Novel of Outrage: A Minority in Recent American Fiction," lecture draft 1964
Original publication 1965
"Avant-Garde: Explorations in Contemporary American Society" 1966
Draft
"Avant-Garde: Exploration in Contemporary American Society," list of places presented 1967
"The Literature of Silence: From Henry Miller to Beckett and Burroughs" 1967
"The Literature of Silence: Touching on Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett," lecture draft 1965
Original publication 1967
"MLA 67" 1968
Lecture, draft 1967
Offprint 1968
Original publication 1968
"II" 1968
"Euremika." Appears as part II of "II."
Index page listing place presented, draft
Original publication 1968
"The Dream of Logic: A Conversation with Ihab Hassan" 1969
Draft, German translation undated
"Sade: Prisoner of Consciousness" 1969
Original publication 1969
"Silence, Revolution, and Consciousness" 1969
Lecture, draft 1968-1969
Original publication 1969
"Frontiers of Criticism: Metaphors of Silence" 1970
Draft
Lecture, draft 1969
Offprint 1970
Original publication, Japanese translation 1970
"Joyce-Beckett: A Scenario in 8 Scenes and a Voice" 1970
Draft
Lecture, draft, with correspondence 1969 and undated
Offprint 1970
Original publication 1970
"Norman Mailer: Why Are We in Vietnam? 1970
"Fiction and Future: An Extravaganza for Voice and Tape" 1971
Draft
Lecture, drafts 1970-1971
"POSTmodernISM: A Paracritical Bibliography" 1971
Draft
Offprint 1971
"AnviRonmenT" 1972
Draft
Original publication 1972
"Criticism, Collusion, and the Collision of Being" 1972
"An Interview with Ihab Hassan," conducted by Judith Gurd 1972
Original publication
"Literature-Criticism: Plumbing the Modern Consciousness. An Interview with Ihab Hassan," conducted by Frederick Brussat 1972
Draft
Draft 1972
Original publication 1972
"Polemic" 1972
Original publication 1972
"ReMembrance of Orpheus: A Paracritical Review in Six Voices, One silent" 1972
Draft
Original publication 1972
"Truman Capote" 1972
Untitled contribution to "On the new Cultural Conservatism" 1972
"The New Cultural Conservatism," draft
Original publication 1972
Original publication 1972
"Canadian Literature," holograph outline
"Contemporary Literature of Canada," holograph draft
Published version 1973
Offprint 1973
"Contemporary Literature in the United States" in Contemporary American Literature 1973
Holograph outline
Holograph draft
Published version
"Errata" and "Bibliographie," German edition
"Contemporary Novelists," list
"Echoes of Dark Laughter: Notes on the Comic Sense in Contemporary American Fiction" 1973
Draft
Original publication 1973
"Man: Still Between Earth and Sky? Or Myth, Art, and Technology" 1973
"The New Gnosticism: Speculations on an Aspect of the Postmodern Mind" 1973
Draft
List of places presented 1973
Original publication 1973
"Readings in Contemporary American Literature, a Suggested Bibliography of Titles Suggested by Ihab Hassan, with an Introduction by the Author" 1973
Original publication 1973
"Ronald Sukenick" 1973
"Silence in Myth, Literature, and Technology: A Paracritical Reflection" 1973
Literary History of the United States (4th edition) 1974
Chapter 83, "The New Consciousness," published version
Chapter 86, "Fiction"
Draft
Published version
Publisher correspondence
"Joyce, Beckett, and the Postmodern Imagination" 1975
Draft
Original publication 1975
"Concerning Joyce, Beckett, and the Postmodern Imagination"
Lecture (on the essay itself), draft 1973
"( ): Finnegans Wake and the Postmodern Imagination" 1973-1975
Letter to the editor regarding "( ): Finnegans Wake and the Postmodern Imagination" 1975
"Beyond Arcadians and Technophiles: New Convergences in Culture?" 1976
Draft
"Beyond Arcadians and Technophiles: New Patterns of Convergence in Western Culture," lecture draft 1975
Original publication 1976
Offprint of republication 1979
"A Letter on Finnegans Wake," unpublished 1976
"Models of Transformation: Ideology, Utopia, and Fantasy in Contemporary America" 1976
Draft
Lecture, draft 1974
"Ideology, Utopia, and Fantasy in America," lecture draft 1976
Original publication 1976
"Polish Interlude" circa 1976-1977
"A Re-vision of Literature" 1976
Draft
Lecture, drafts 1975-1976
Original publication 1976
Original publication, Spanish translation 1978
"Bernard Malamud: 1976 Fictions within our Fictions" 1977
Draft
Lecture, draft 1976
Draft
Lecture, drafts 1976
Original publication 1977
Fragment
Published version
Offprint
"The Critic as Innovator," and Swedish translation 1977, 1980, 1985
Original publication 1985
"Desire, Imagination, Change" 1977
Lecture, draft and unpublished version 1977
"Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?: A University Masque in Five Scenes" 1977
Draft
"The Promethean Mind: The Challenges of a Posthumanist Culture. A University Masque in Five Scenes," lecture draft 1976-1978
Offprint 1977
"Culture, Indeterminacy, and Immanence: Margins of the (Postmodern) Age" 1978
Draft
Lecture, draft 1977-1978
Offprint 1978
"Toward a Transhumanized Earth: Imagination, Science, and Future" 1978
Draft
Lecture, draft 1978
Original publication 1978
"Beyond the Two Cultures: Still the Right Promethean Fire" 1979
Holograph lecture draft
Published version
Republication 1995
Original publication 1995
"Desire, Imagination, Change: Outline of a Critical Project" 1979
Holograph draft
Fragment
"Outline of a Critical Project: Desire, Imagination, Change" and "Beyond the New Orthodoxies: Desire, Imagination, and Change," lecture drafts 1978-1979
"Interpretation, etc.," holograph 1979
"Cities of Mind, Urban Words: The Dematerialization of Metropolis in Contemporary American Fiction" 1980, 1981
Holograph draft
Published version
Original publication 1980
"Interview on Saul Bellow: Suggested Questions" 1980
"Parabiography: The Varieties of Critical Experience" 1980
Holograph draft
Lecture, drafts 1979
Published version
Photocopy of original publication 1980
"The Question of Postmodernism" 1980
Draft
Lecture, drafts 1978-1979
The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change 1980
"Words: The Camargo Journal. Variations on the Themes of Imagination, or Faust at Fifty. Volume I. September 1974- ," holograph 1974
"Serbelloni Journal," holograph
Composite manuscript
Published version
Index
"A Dream (from Metaphors of Silence)" 1981
Original publication 1981
The Dismemberment of Orpheus (2nd edition) 1982
"Preface to the Second Edition," holograph
"Postface: 1981. Toward a Concept of Postmodernism," holograph
"Foreword" to Hans Mayer's Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters 1982
Holograph draft
Published version
"Joyce and the Gnosis of Modern Science" 1982
Draft
Lecture, draft 1979
"Saul Bellow" 1982
Holograph draft
Lecture, draft 1982-1985
Published version
"Wars of Desire: Politics of the Word: A Short Comment on William Gass" 1982
Holograph draft
Lecture, draft 1982
Published version
Original publication 1982
"The Critical Debate: Trends and Conflicts in Recent Literary Theory" 1983
Holograph draft
Lecture
Published version
"Desire and Dissent in the Postmodern Age" 1983
Holograph draft
Published version
"Ideas of Cultural Change" 1983
Offprint 1983
"Innovation/Renovation: Rough Transcript of a Self-Interview," unpublished circa 1983
"Passage from Egypt: Excerpt from an Imaginary Autobiography" 1983
Original publication 1983
"Passage from Egypt: Fragments of an Imaginary Autobiography" 1983
Original publication 1983
"Le critique: home d'avant-garde?" 1984
"The Critic as Avant-Gardist," English version
Published version, in French, by Diana Weisgerber
Offprint, in French 1984
"Foreword," Major Themes in the Contemporary American Novel 1984
"Timely Pleasures: Sane and In-Sane" 1984
Holograph draft
"Of Sane and Insane Pleasures," lecture draft 1983
Original publications 1984
Published version
Later writings Series 2. 1985-2000
Series Scope and Content Summary
"The Aura of a New Man: A Note on Charles Newman" 1985
Holograph draft
Published version
Original publication 1985
"Autobiography, Adventure, and Quest in Modern American Literature" 1985
Offprint, Japanese translation 1985
"The Critical Scene: Issues in Postmodern American Criticism" 1985
Holograph draft
Published version
Offprints 1985, 1987
"The Culture of Postmodernism" 1985
Draft
Out of Egypt: Scenes and Arguments of an Autobiography 1985
Draft
Draft undated
Corrected proofs
"Preface" to Postmodernism: Ihab Hassan's Theory of Culture and Literature 1985
"Spirit of Quest: Adventure in Contemporary American Literature" 1985
Holograph outline
Holograph draft
Published version
"Spirit of Quest: The Place of Adventure in Contemporary American Literature" 1986
Original publication 1986
Photocopy of original publication 1986
"Imagination and Belief: Wallace Stevens and William James in Our Clime" 1986
Holograph draft
Lecture
Published version
Original publication 1986
"Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective" 1986, 1987
Published version 1986
Published version 1987
Lecture, draft 1984-1985
Original publication 1986
Offprint of republication 1987
"Saul Bellow: An Introduction" 1986
Draft
Original publication 1986
"The War Novel in the United States, 1945-1985: Visions of War and Peace" 1986
"The Whole Mystery of Babel: On George Steiner" 1986
Holograph draft
Published version
"American Culture and Literature" 1987
"The Postwar American Scene: Culture and Ideas in America since 1945," offprint, Japanese translation 1987
"Making Sense: The Trials of Postmodern Discourse" 1987
"Making Sense: The Crisis of Postmodern Discourse," holograph draft
Published version
Lecture, draft 1984-1987
Lecture introduction, draft 1987
Offprint 1987
Spanish translation, offprint 1988
The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture 1987
Chapter 10, "Prospects in Retrospect," holograph
Composite manuscript
Published version
"Introduction," holograph
"Quest: Forms of Adventure in Contemporary American Literature" 1987
Holograph draft
Published version
"Contexts of Reading, Texts of Belief: Theory and Pragmatism in our Clime" 1988
Draft
Lecture
Published version
Offprint
"Ideology, Pragmatism, and the Self: Toward an Independent Criticism" 1988
Original publication 1988
"On the Problem of the Postmodern" 1988
Holograph draft
Published version
Offprint 1988
"Quest for the Subject: The Self in Literature" 1988
Draft
Photocopy of original publication 1988
"Beyond Postmodernism? Theory, Sense, and Pragmatism" 1989
Holograph draft
Published version
"Fictions of Power: A Note on Ideological Discourse in the Humanities" 1989
Holograph first draft
Second draft
Published version
Original publication and photocopy 1989
"Motion and Mischief: Contemporary British Travel Writing" 1989
Holograph draft
Lecture
Published version
Abridged published version
"Motion as Metaphor: Travel and Geopolitics in our Age" 1989
"Travel as Metaphor: Unmargined Realities," unpublished holograph circa 1989-1990
"Alterity? Three Japanese examples" 1990
Draft
Original publication 1990
"Autobiography, etc." 1990
Holograph draft
Published version
"The Burden of Mutual Perceptions: Japan and the United States" 1990
"Japan and the United States: The Burden of Mutual Perceptions (San Diego)"
Holograph lecture draft
Lecture
Holograph lecture draft
Lecture
Holograph draft
Published version
Original publication 1990
"Ihab Hassan: Fragments of an Autobiography" 1990
Draft
Draft, undated
Published version
Photocopy of original publication 1990
"Ideology, Theory, and the Self: Toward and Independent Criticism" 1990
"Between Theory and Ideology: Toward an Independent Criticism," holograph lecture outline
Lecture
Draft
Lecture
Published version
Selves at Risk 1990
Holograph title page, acknowledgments, table of contents, and errata
Holograph draft
Corrected proofs
Final proofs
"The Writer as Seeker: The Example of Peter Matthiesen" 1990
"Let the Fresh Air In: Graduate Studies in the Humanities" 1991
"Looking to the Nineties, Let the Fresh Air In: Comments on Graduate Studies in the Humanities," holograph lecture draft
Lecture
Published version 1991
Original publication 1991
Published version 1993
Draft
Published version 1997
"The Quest for Self: Travel and Geopolitics in our Clime" 1991
"An Australian Journey" 1992
Original publication 1992
"Local Education, Global Concerns: The Search for Transcultural Values, Japan and the United States" 1992, 1993
Draft
Published version
Original publication 1992
Original publication 1993
"Nomadic Autobiography: Paul Theroux and Peter Conrad" 1992
"Preface to the Chinese edition of The Postmodern Turn" 1992
Holograph draft
Final version
"Visit to Oz: Personal Notes on an Australian Journey" 1992
Holograph draft
Published version
"Beyond Exile: A Postcolonial Intellectual Abroad" 1993
Draft
Original publication 1993
"Confessions of a Reluctant Critic or, The Resistance to Literature" 1993
Holograph first draft
Second draft
Lecture
Lecture, draft 1991
Published version
Offprint 1993
"Local Education, Global Concerns: The Search for Transcultural Values, Japan and the United States" 1993
Holograph draft
Lecture
Published version
"Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and Beyond: Toward an Open World" 1993
Lecture, draft 1991
"Criticism in our Clime: Parables of American Academe" 1994
Holograph draft
Lecture draft
Lecture
Published version
Abridged published version
Original publication and offprint of two slightly different versions 1994
"In the Mirror of the Sun: Reflections on Japanese and American Literature, Basho to Cage" 1994
First draft
Second draft
Lecture
Published version
Original publication and offprint 1994
Republication, offprint 1995
Rumors of Change: Essays of Five Decades 1995
Composite manuscript
Published version
Copy-edited draft undated
Publisher correspondence
"Counterpoints: Nationalism, Colonialism, Multiculturalism, etc. in Personal Perspective" 1995
"Nationalism, Colonialism, Multiculturalism etc.: A Personal View," holograph
"Imperatives of the Heart: Nationalism, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism in a Personal Perspective" (lecture)
Published version
Lecture
Between the Eagle and the Sun: Traces of Japan 1996
Holograph first draft
Holograph second draft
Third draft
Published version
Miscellaneous drafts undated
Copy-edited draft undated
"Between the Eagle and the Sun: Three Literary Conceits of America and Japan -- for Iwao Iwamoto" circa 1996
"Negative Capability: Literature and Philosophy contra Politics" 1996
Holograph draft
Lecture
Published version
Offprints 1996-1997
"Art/Spirit: Pictures at Two Exhibitions" 1997
"Art/Spirit: A Note on Two Exhibitions," holograph draft
Published version
Offprint 1997
"The Expense of Spirit in Postmodern Times: Between Nihilism and Belief" 1997
"The Expense of Spirit in Postmodern Times: Or Nihilism in Action"
Holograph first draft
Holograph second draft
Lecture
"The Role of Spirit in Postmodern Times," lecture draft undated
Offprint 1997
Published version
Forum on Intellectuals 1997
"Regarding Intellectuals," holograph
Published version
"Marginal Literature at the Exploded Center: An Okinawan Instance" 1997
Lecture
Published version
"Postmodernism Revisited: A Personal Account" 1997
Holograph draft
Published version
"Student of the Human Experience: Interview with Ihab Hassan" 1997
Original publication 1997
"Counterpoints: Nationalism, Colonialism, Multiculturalism, etc. in Personal Perspective" 1998
Photocopy of original publication 1998
"Postmodernism Revisited: A Personal Account" 1998
Offprint 1998
Preface to George Grittoes 1998
Draft undated
"Queries for Postcolonial Studies" 1998
Draft undated
"The Food of the Gods" 1999
Original publication 1999
"Globalism and its Discontents: Notes of a Wandering Scholar" 1999
Draft undated
Original publication 1999
"Interview with Ihab Hassan and Frank Cioffi" 1999
Draft undated
"Encomium: David Malouf" 2000
Nomination of David Malouf for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, draft undated
"Interview with Ihab Hassan and Jerzy Durczak" 2000
Draft undated
"MLA Millennial Questionnaire on University Issues" 2000
"Modern Language Association, Millennial Statement," draft undated
Conference papers and public lectures Series 3. 1952-1999
Series Scope and Content Summary
Untitled talk on the Middle East, draft 1952
"An Approach to Criticism," draft 1955
"Teaching English in Foreign Lands" and "Fulbright Panel," draft of contribution to panel 1957
"Dramatic Values: From the Point of View of the Philosopher," draft 1957
"The United States and the Arab World," draft 1957
"The Course in Contemporary American Fiction," draft 1958
"The Existential Novel," draft 1962
"The Face Within: Images of the Hero in Contemporary American Literature," draft 1962
"Saints and Scoundrels: The New Frontier of Morality," draft 1962
"New Forms of Expression in American Literature," draft 1963-1964
"On Teaching the Modern: Problems," draft 1963
Panel discussion on J.D. Salinger, broadcast schedule for The Open Mind television program 1963
"Postwar Fiction," draft 1963
Delta Tau Delta, draft 1964
"Symposium: Immortality," draft 1965
"Innocent Radicalism," draft 1966
"Mailer or Bellow? The Contrary Visions of the American Novel," draft 1966
"Metacriticism: Trends in Current American Criticism," draft 1966-1967
"The Mutant Novel: Postwar American Fiction," draft 1966-1967
"The Territory Ahead: Trends in Avant-Garde Fiction of the U.S." circa 1966
"The Voice of Silence: The Later Work of J.D. Salinger," draft 1966
"Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye," draft 1967
"The Silence of Ernest Hemingway," drafts 1967-1969
"Radical Innocence and Henry James," draft 1968
"Silence: The Prophetic Voice of Literature," draft 1968
"The Three Masks of Anomie," draft 1968
"Commentary on Leslie Fielder," draft 1969
"Seminar: Silence," draft 1969
Colloquium on teaching, draft 1970
"From Spite to Silence: Antiheros in Gide, Mann, Kafka, Joyce, and Beckett," draft 1970
"Welcome Address: MMLA," draft 1970
"The Vision of Spite: Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground," incomplete draft 1970
"Imagination and Power: The Example of Jean Genet," draft 1971
"The Liberal Arts in an Urban University: Points," draft 1971
"The Postmodern Age," draft 1971
"Imagination, Culture, and Change," draft 1972
"Languages of Silence: Is Discursive Culture Dead?," draft 1972
"Skinner," draft 1972
"The Transformation of the Novel," draft 1972
"The Absurd in Literature," draft 1973
"Avant-Garde Trends in Contemporary American Fiction," draft 1973
"Defining Modernism," draft 1973
"Ideology, Utopia, and Fantasy: The Contemporary American Imagination," draft 1973
"Modern and Postmodern: Avant-Garde Movements in American Literature," draft 1973-1974
"Myth, Literature, and Technology: A Convergence," draft 1973
"New Convergences in Culture: Myth, Literature, and Technology. The Making of a New (American) Consciousness"
"Reflection and Transparency," draft 1973
"( ): Finnegans Wake and the Postmodern Imagination," draft 1973
"Avant-Garde trends in Contemporary American Fiction," draft 1974
Colloquium, draft 1974
"Culture and the Prophetic Imagination," draft 1974
"Science: Imagination: Future," draft 1974
"The Novelist's Image of Europe and America," draft 1975
"Unmaking: A Postmodern Fiction," draft 1975
"Dimensions of the Future in the Humanities"
Holograph draft 1976
Draft 1976
"The Evolving Consciousness in Art and Literature," draft 1976
"Vision and Value: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?," draft 1976
"The New Gnosticism: Diffusion of the Sacred in Contemporary Culture and Literature," draft 1977-1979
"The Brightness and Fullness of Culture: Toward a Transhumanized Earth" circa 1978
"The Canon of Modern American Literature," draft 1978
"The Question of Postmodernism: The Examples of Fiction and Criticism," draft 1978
"Beyond Interpretation," draft 1979
Aachen conference on postmodernism, draft 1979
"Postmodernism and Paracriticisms," draft 1979
"Science, Technology, Culture: Toward a Postmodern Gnosis?," draft 1980
"The Technology of Consciousness: Language, Myth, Culture, Technics"
Holograph draft circa 1980
Draft 1980
"Beyond the Two Cultures: Science and the Humanities in Our Age," drafts 1981-1985
"Desire and Dissent in the Postmodern Age," draft 1981-1982
"Experimental Fiction: The Challenge of Postmodernism," draft 1981
"Innovation/Renovation," holograph draft 1981
"The One and the Many Again: The Question of Judgment"
Holograph draft 1981
draft 1981
"Samuel Beckett and the Culture of Postmodernism," draft 1981
"Ambiguity in the Arts: The Culture of Postmodernism," draft 1982
"Ideology, Utopia, Fantasy: The Sixties in American Culture," draft 1982-1985
" Macbeth: Film and Literature," draft 1982
"New Challenges to American Studies," draft 1982-1984
"Criticism: Genre, Power, or Desire? A Postmodern View," drafts 1983
Holograph draft circa 1983-1984
Drafts 1983
"Modernists and Postmodernists," draft 1983
"One Hundred Days Around the World: Personal Notes on Geopolitics," with Sally Hassan
Draft 1983-1987
"From 'One Hundred Days Around the World'," holograph draft outline of lecture undated
"Postmodernism: The Vanishing Horizon," draft 1983
"Wolfgang and Thérèse Ule," draft 1984
"Comment on Hayden White," draft 1984
"Critical Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective," holograph 1984
Lectures delivered at the University of Texas, Dallas
"Postmodern Fiction," draft 1984-1985
"Criticism and Social Change: Colloquium with Frank Lentricchia" 1985
Holograph draft 1985
Lecture, draft 1985
"Making Sense: The Crisis of Postmodern Discourse" 1985
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"The Brightness and Fullness of Culture: Towards a Transhumanized Earth" 1986
"Democracy and Empire: American Literature and American Power in the Twentieth Century" 1986
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"IAUPE: General Introduction," holograph 1986
"Interfaces of Culture: Quest, the West, and its Others," draft 1986-1987
"Our Selves Abroad: Scholars on Journeys," holograph outline 1986
"The Struggle for the Postmodern: Theory, Ideology, and Pragmatism," draft 1986-1987
"Postmodernism & Joyce" 1987
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"American Visions, Visions of America: The Example of Paul Theroux" 1988
"Of African Lions and Snow Leopards: The City, the Wilderness and Contemporary Quest" 1988
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"Representations of Otherness: Cultural Hermeneutics, East and West" 1988
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"Introduction to Paul Fussell Lecture," holograph 1989
"Psychological Approaches to Culture and History," holograph 1989
"The Self as Subject: A Pragmatic Reconstitution" 1989
Symposium: "Japan and the United States Cultural Relations Myths and Realities," holograph 1989
"Travel as Autobiography, Autobiography as Travel" 1989
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"Autobiography in Motion: Paul Theroux and Peter Conrad" 1990
First draft
Second draft
Final lecture version
"Knowing Across Cultures" 1990
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"The New American Pragmatism: Problems and Prospects" 1990
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"Selves at Risk: Quest and Adventure in Contemporary American Letters" 1990
"Travel and Autobiography in Cross-Cultural Perspective" 1990
Holograph first draft
Second draft
Final lecture version
"Travel as Mirror of Self and World: Some Western and Japanese Examples," holograph 1990
"Aspects of Multiculturalism and Literary Theory," holograph 1991
"Commemorative Speech in Honor of Iwao Iwamoto" 1991
"Global Technology, Local Traditions: Toward a New World Order" holograph lecture outline 1991
"Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and Beyond: Toward an Open World" 1991
"Between the Eagle and the Sun: Three Literary Conceits of America and Japan" 1992
"Between the Eagle and the Sun: Japanese and American Intercultural Contrasts," holograph outline
Final lecture version
"Beyond Exile: A Postcolonial Intellectual Abroad" 1992
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"Introduction to Australian Lectures: Beyond Exile, etc.," lecture 1994
"Local Cultures in Global Collision: The United States, Japan and Transcultural Values" 1992
Draft
Final lecture version
Acceptance speech for the "Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence" 1994
"Nation and Knowledge: Beyond All That?" 1994
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"IAUPE" 1995
"Introduction to Ian Buruma" 1995
ABC Meridian Program, Sydney 1996
"Between the Eagle and the Sun: Japanese and American Intercultural Contrasts," holograph outline circa 1996
BBC telephone interview, holograph notes 1996
"Disputation," holograph 1996
"The Forgotten and Future Kingdom: Okinawan Literature at the Turn of the Second Millennium" 1996
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
"NHK Okinawan Dialogue with Natsuke Ikezawa," holograph 1996
Interview, with Natsuke Ikezawa, on Okinawa 1996 December
"Re-visioning Yeats" 1996
Holograph draft
Final lecture version
BBC interview with Charles Jencks, holograph outline 1997
"Multiculturalism in Global Perspective (with an Eye on Japan)," draft circa 1997
"A Lecture: Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism: Three Isms in Search of a Concept," draft circa 1998
"The Privations of Postmodernism: Faulkner as Exemplar (a Meditation in X Parts)," draft circa 1998
"Three Memos to the Third Millennium: Hopes and Concerns for the Present," draft 1999
"Integrated Session: The Hero," draft undated
Materials for introducing Samuel Delaney, Angus Fletcher, and Ervin Laszlo, drafts undated
"Morality, Literature, and Censorship," draft undated
Response by Norman Holmes Pearson to Hassan's paper on teaching American literature, draft undated
Book reviews Series 4. 1959-1997
Series Scope and Content Summary
Walcutt, Charles. American Literary Naturalism. Review titled "Naturalism Revisited" 1959
Fraiberg, Louis. Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism 1961
Marshall, Paul. Soul Clap Hands and Sing. Review titled "Tatters of Age" 1961
New World Writing 1961
Fairbairn, Douglas, Blair Fuller, and George Mandel. Three Short Novels. Review titled "Three by Three" 1961
Brennan, Gerald. A Holiday by the Sea 1962
Goran, Lester. Maria Light 1962
Hill, Pati. One Thing I Know 1962
Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived in the Castle 1962
Macdonald, Dwight. Against the American Grain undated
Mandel, George. The Wax Room 1962
Morris, Wright. What a Way to Go undated
Purdy, James. Children is All 1962
Review titled "After the Grotesque" 1962
Draft
Original publication 1962
Genet, Jean. Our Lady of the Flowers. Review titled "The Ritual Search for Being" 1963
Malamud, Bernard. Idiots First 1963
Pynchon, Thomas. V 1963
Salinger, J. D. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction. Review titled "The Casino of Silence" 1963
Willingham, Calder. Eternal Fire circa 1963
Dahlberg, Edward. Because I was Flesh. Review titled "The Sorrows of Edward Dahlberg" 1964
Draft
Original publication 1964
Sarraute, Nathalie. The Golden Fruits 1964
Review titled "Three Critics: Mizener, Hoffman, Podhoretz" 1964
Elliott, George P. In the World 1965
Review titled " The Dial and Recent American Fiction" 1966
Lecture, draft 1965
Original publication 1966
Gass, William. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. Review titled "In Praise of Gass" circa 1968
Review titled "Books in the Field: Anticriticism," original publication 1968
Untitled review on Edward Dahlberg 1970
"In Praise of Dahlberg," draft
Original publication 1970
Sukenick, Ronald. Out. Review titled "Reading Out: Ihab Hassan on Ronald Sukenick," original publication 1973
Review titled: "Abstractions" 1975
Draft
Photocopy of original publication 1975
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Amalgamemnon. Review titled "Revisionary Punorama," drafts titled "Confessions of a Graphomanic or Cassandra Graphomane." 1985
Holograph draft
Published version
Original publication 1985
Ishiguo, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Review titled "An Extravagant Reticence" 1990
Holograph draft
Published version
Original publication 1990
Mahfouz, Naguib. Palace Walk. Review titled "The First Arab Laureate" 1990
Holograph draft
Published version
Photocopy of original publication 1990
"Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk," ABC Radio Melbourne 1990
Haruki, Murakami. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Review titled "In Sorrows Begin Responsibilities: Japan's Bestselling Author Offers a Wry, Weird Parable of our Times" 1991
Holograph draft
Published version 1991
Published version 1992
Tsushima, Yuko. Woman Running in the Mountains 1991
Draft
Photocopy of original publication 1991
Tsujii, Takashi. A Stone Monument on a Fine day: Selected Poems 1991
Holograph draft
"Contemporary American Literature: A Selective View. A Brief Report for the Nobel Committee on Literature" 1991
Holograph draft
Published version
Final version
Bus, Clive. Halfway to Revolution: Investigation and Crisis in the Work of Henry Adams, William James, and Gertrude Stein 1992
Holograph draft
Published version
Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism. Letter to the editor regarding Malcolm Bradbury's review and photocopy of original publication 1992
Lowe, Lisa. Critical Terrains 1992
Holograph draft
Published version
Offprint 1992
Takashi Tsujii. A Spring Like Any Other. Untitled review 1992
Holograph draft
Published version
Photocopy of original publication
Takashi Tsujii. A Spring Like Any Other. Review titled "Scruples and Ambivalence: Travails of a Japanese Tycoon" 1992
Holograph draft
Published version
Abish, Walter. Eclipse Fever. Review titled "Ecliptic Art" 1994
Holograph draft
Published version
Review titled "A Textual Conceit: Kobo Abe's The Box Man and Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father" 1994
Garner, Helen. The First Stone 1995
Holograph draft
Published version
Liu, Sola. Chaos and All That 1995
Holograph draft
Published version
Morley, John David. The Feast of Fools 1995
Holograph draft
Published version
Photocopy of original publication 1995
Ikezawa, Natsuki. Still Lives. Review titled "Hyperrealities of Everyday Life" 1997
Draft 1997
Original publication and offprint 1997
Visarison, Alexa. Richard the Third
Biographical material Series 5. 1996-1998
Series Scope and Content Summary
Curriculum vitae 1998
Bibliography 1998
Lectures, papers, visiting professorships information circa 1998
" 20/20: A View of the Century," press release 1996
"Interview of Rodika," unpublished interview undated
Itinerary from 1997-1998 undated
Teaching materials Series 6. 1953-1997
Series Scope and Content Summary
Integrated program for freshmen 1953-1957
English 1A-2A 1954-1964
Humanities 1-2 and 1A-2A 1954-1960
Western civilization I-II 1954-1962 and undated
English 13-14 1955
English 161, The study of poetry 1955 Summer
English 54, The symbolic imagination 1956
English 1-2 1956-1964 and undated
Humanities 1-2 1956-1957
English 51, Senior seminar, Whitman and Yeats: a comparative study 1957 Fall
English 32, The study of poetry: contexts 1958 Spring
College of Letters, Class of 1962 1959-1962
English 43, Trends in postwar American literature 1963 Fall
College of Letters, Class of 1966 1964-1966
Salzburg seminars, Recent American fiction 1965 Summer
Humanities 101-102 1965-1966
English 269X, The twentieth century novel in English 1968 Spring
Literature 152, The modern European novel 1968 Summer
English 103, The question of evil. Literature: challenge, response, transcendence 1968 Fall
College of Letters 376, The picaresque and gothic modes in American fiction 1969 Spring
English 241, American literature: 1900-1940 1969 Fall
English 519, Problems in contemporary American literature: ideology, utopia, fantasy 1972 Spring
English 868, Myth, literature, and technology 1972 Fall
Humanities 530/35, Culture and the prophetic imagination 1974 Spring
English 519, The literature of the future: from ideology to science fiction, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1975 Fall
English 775, Modern theories of the literary imagination 1976 Spring
Avant-garde, modern, and postmodern, Seattle 1977 Summer
English 775, The creative process in art, literature, and science 1977 Fall
Comparative Literature 260/533, The making of the modern mind: the Promethean challenge in myth, literature, and science 1978 Fall
English 727, Avant-garde, modern, and postmodern: three modes of literary change in the twentieth century, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1979 Spring
English 875, Myth and literature 1980 Spring
Comparative Literature 533, The challenge of modernism in fiction and ideas 1980 Fall
English 720, History and theory of criticism 1981 Fall
English 820, Contemporary criticism: theories, methods, practices 1982 Spring
Comparative Literature 702, Literature and other disciplines: myth, literature, and philosophy 1983 Spring
English 733, History of literary criticism 1983 Fall
English and Comparative Literature 691, The modernist imagination 1984
English 875, Postmodern theory and literature: an international perspective 1984
English 350, The backgrounds of modernism 1984-1992
English 875, Autobiography, adventure, and quest in modern American literature 1985 Spring
English 824, American pragmatism: how to read literature 1992 Fall
Comparative Literature 381, What is modernism in literature? 1994 Spring and 1997 Spring
English 244, Postwar American literature undated
Minimally processed addition 2005 Accession 2006-002 circa 1999-2002
Series Scope and Contents Summary
Minimally processed addition 2006 Accession 2006-017 2004-2006
Series Scope and Contents Summary
Minimally processed addition 2007 Accession 2007-015 1974-2007
Series Scope and Contents Summary
Minimally processed addition 2007 Accession 2009-019 1953-2003
Minimally processed addition 2017 Accession 2017-017 1976-2004
Series Scope and Contents Summary
Minimally processed addition 2017 Accession 2021-035 1990-2015
Series Scope and Contents Summary
Box 1 1990-2015
Box 2 1990-2015