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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495879003321

Autore

Cassedy Steven

Titolo

Flight from Eden : the origins of modern literary criticism and theory / / Steven Cassedy [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1990

ISBN

0-585-36643-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 253 p. )

Disciplina

801

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Philosophy, Modern - 19th century

Philosophy, Modern - 20th century

Aesthetics, Modern - 19th century

Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Literature - Philosophy - History - 19th century

Philosophy, Modern - Theory, etc - History and criticism - 20th century

Aesthetics, Modern

Literature

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : How literary criticism came into its own in this country and how the poets got there first -- pt. 1. Language. Flight from Eden : myths about myths about language in modern times -- The Russian tradition from Potebnia to Shklovsky, with some poets in between -- Mallarmé and the elocutionary disappearance of the poet -- pt. 2. Theology. Introduction : The hidden God -- How God didn't quite die in France -- Icon and logos, or why Russian philosophy is always theology -- Roman Jakobson, or how logology and mythology were exported -- pt. 3. Relationalism. Numbers, systems, functions-- and essences -- Descartes in relational garb -- How numbers ran amok in Russia -- pt.



4. Ontology. The being of artworks -- Being in the world and being in structures in Mallarmé and Valéry -- Into the world of names and out of the museum -- Rilke's house of being.