Flight from Eden (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Steven Cassedy
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, 1960’s, 1970’s, Tradition, Mythology or myths, Literature, Religion, Consciousness, Mathematics or mathematicians, Theology
Cassedy’s wide-ranging study is in part an intellectual history that traces the origins of modern critical consciousness to some unexpected sources. More than intellectual history, however, Flight from Eden is a book with a mission: to expose the varieties of mystification that characterize modern American literary criticism and theory in the structuralist and the post structuralist era—the 1960’s and the early 1970’s. Cassedy identifies a number of self-deluding myths that he believes permeate the American critical establishment. Fundamentally, his purpose is to demolish...
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