Flight from Eden 1st Edition by Steven Cassedy ISBN 978-0520335035 0520335031

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ISBN 10:  0520335031

ISBN 13:  978-0520335035

Author:  Steven Cassedy

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 distinction between “poetic” language and “ordinary” language. The modern critic attempts to abandon all mystical faith; this is the “flight from Eden.” 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 (Mallarmé, and Valéry); 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.

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Table of contents: 

PART I. LANGUAGE

1. Flight from Eden: Myths about Myths about Language in Modern Times

2. The Russian Tradition from Potebnia to Shklovsky, with Some Poets in Between

3. Mallarmé and the Elocutionary Disappear-ance of the Poet

PART II. THEOLOGY

Introduction: The Hidden God

4. How God Didn’t Quite Die in France

5. Icon and Logos, or Why Russian Philosophy Is Always Theology

6. Roman Jakobson, or How Logology and Mythology Were Exported

PART III. RELATIONALISM

7. Numbers, Systems, Functions-and Essences

8. Descartes in Relational Garb

9. How Numbers Ran Amok in Russia

PART IV. ONTOLOGY

10. The Being of Artworks

11. Being in the World and Being in Structures in Mallarmé and Valéry

12. Into the World of Names and Out of the Museum

13. Rilke’s House of Being

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