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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"...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
"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
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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.
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Falck attempts a deathblow to post-structuralist obfuscation,
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This review is from: Myth, Truth and Literature: Towards a True Post-modernism (Paperback)
I found the book invaluable for its lucid exposure of the whole pallid and incoherent post-structuralist take on language and human experience in general. Falck shows how language arises out of our nature as embodied creatures who discover our limits and powers in the context of our physical environment; what's more, the physical world itself arises in correlation to this emergent consciousness. Far from being absolute and independent of human consciousness, the physical world is in a real sense created and maintained by imagination (it's not a new idea---Coleridge and the Romantics figured it out 200 years ago). If this whole business sounds crazy, read Falck's book (and Owen Barfield's *Poetic Diction*); what sounds crazy to 20th century common sense will prove inevitable in the light of a little reasoning and reflection. Don't be put off by all the references to Kant and Wittgenstein; just read the thing straight through for the argument and the pieces will fall into place even if you don't know anything about the history of philosophy.
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Deep background for literary theory...and life,
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This review is from: Myth, Truth and Literature: Towards a True Post-modernism (Paperback)
Actually, Falck's critique of postmodernism is only the first chapter. The rest of the book is a detailed, opinionated, and pointed discussion of the rest of philosophical history (Kant, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Schelling, Hegel, Coleridge) and its impact on literary theory, epistemology, and even ontology. It is not an easy book, but it is immensely rewarding. The appendix "Romanticism and Poetics" is especially well-done.
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The founder of modern linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure - on whose insights into the nature of signs and language the greater part of the French and American literary theory of the past two decades has rather perilously come to depend - based the main arguments of his project for a newly scientific study of language on what are in fact a pair of philosophical axioms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
render completely intelligible, unapprehended relations, aesthetic semblance, signs for portions, human transcendence, mythic mode, mythic consciousness, nobler purposes, ontological truth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Critique of Pure Reason, New York, Defence of Poetry, Oxford University Press, Aesthetic Education, Anatomy of Criticism, Philosophical Investigations, Biographia Literaria, Northrop Frye, Poetic Diction, Virginia Woolf, Clarendon Press, Jonathan Culler, Owen Barfield, Complete Writings, Critique of Judgement, Fredric Jameson, The Pleasure of the Text, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Frank Kermode, Jacques Derrida, Johns Hopkins University Press, Michel Foucault, Princeton University Press New!
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The founder of modern linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure - on whose insights into the nature of signs and language the greater part of the French and American literary theory of the past two decades has rather perilously come to depend - based the main arguments of his project for a newly scientific study of language on what are in fact a pair of philosophical axioms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
render completely intelligible, unapprehended relations, aesthetic semblance, signs for portions, human transcendence, mythic mode, mythic consciousness, nobler purposes, ontological truth Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Critique of Pure Reason, New York, Defence of Poetry, Oxford University Press, Aesthetic Education, Anatomy of Criticism, Philosophical Investigations, Biographia Literaria, Northrop Frye, Poetic Diction, Virginia Woolf, Clarendon Press, Jonathan Culler, Owen Barfield, Complete Writings, Critique of Judgement, Fredric Jameson, The Pleasure of the Text, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Frank Kermode, Jacques Derrida, Johns Hopkins University Press, Michel Foucault, Princeton University Press New!
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- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 20 pages
- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 9 pages
- RC Series Bundle: Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature (Routledge Classics) by Jonathan Culler on 6 pages
- Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye on 6 pages
- Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs by Jacques Derrida on 5 pages
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- Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow by Brian D. Ingraffia in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- American and British Verse in the Twentieth Century: The Poetry That Matters by Colin Falck in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology by Gerard Loughlin on page 107
- Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery by Christopher Herbert in Back Matter
- Ground Rules: BASEBALL AND MYTH by Deeanne Westbrook in Back Matter
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