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by Steven Cassedy| 1990| 256 pages| 16| English

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Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern criticism–from structuralism to postmodern criticism–rests on a faith in an and “Eden, and ” an irreducible essence, a myth, like the common myth that there is an intrinsic distinction between and “poetic and ” language and and “ordinary and ” language. The modern critic attempts to abandon all mystical faith; this is the and “flight from Eden. and ” But it is always in vain.It is traditionally assumed that modern literary criticism and theory came from France, and relatively recently. In fact, according to Cassedy, the entire modern critical consciousness was already formed by the early twentieth century in the minds of writers who were primarily neither professional critics nor philosophers, but poets. Some were French (Mallarme, and Valery); others were not (Rilke, Bely, and the Russian avant-garde poet Velimir Khlebnikov). In them we find the same Edenic faith, the same effort to abandon it, and the same failure of that effort.

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Author:Steven Cassedy
Publication Year:1990
ISBN:9780520068636
Pages:256
Language:English
File Size:16
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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