Myth, Truth and Literature: Towards a True Post-modernism - Softcover

Falck, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521467519 ISBN 13: 9780521467513

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Myth, Truth and Literature is a theoretical study that aims to prove the superfluousness of literary theory. The author believes that we now require a "paradigm-shift" that will replace "structuralist" and "post-structuralist" literary theory and will reestablish the validity of such old-fashioned "Romantic" notions as intuition, imagination and inspiration.

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Book Description

This theoretical study aims to prove the superfluousness of literary theory. The author believes that we now require a "paradigm-shift" that will replace "structuralist" and "post-structuralist" theory and re-establish the validity of intuition, imagination and inspiration.

Review

"...a bold attempt to rethink the postmodern...the great merit of Falck's enquiry lies in its readiness to uphold the Romantic and Arnoldian imagination in terms that take account of post-Saussurian and Derridean perspectives." The Times Literary Supplement

"Colin Falck's Myth, Truth and Literature prefigures the entire methodology of my Sexual Personae (1990). It reveals the future of literary criticism and shows the path out of now totally bankrupt French literary theory. Literary studies are in a period of chaos: the age of theory is over, but it's not clear what is taking shape. Falck's book is a map for the future." Camille Paglia, 1993

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521467519
• ISBN 13: 9780521467513
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 232