The Critical I

The Critical I
ISBN-10
0231076509
ISBN-13
9780231076500
Category
Criticism
Pages
262
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Norman Norwood Holland

Description

Asserting that literary theory needs a dose of common sense, this treatise attacks Saussurean linguistics as outmoded and discredited in its elimination of its subjects. It claims that postmodernist ideas of the individual rest on false linguistic and psychological premises.

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