Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory

by Steven Cassedy

Book Overview

Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: 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 "Eden," an irreducible essence, a myth, like the common myth that there is an intrinsic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520335031
• ISBN13: 9780520335035
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"