Before revision: Literature scholar Norman Holland in 1992 saw post-structuralism as flawed due to reliance on Saussure's linguistic model, which was seriously challenged by the 1950s and was soon abandoned by linguists: Saussure's views are not held, so far as I know, by modern linguists, only by literary critics and the occasional philosopher.
After revision: <blockquote>Literature scholar Norman Holland in 1992 saw post-structuralism as flawed due to reliance on Saussure's linguistic model, which was seriously challenged by the 1950s and was soon abandoned by linguists: Saussure's views are not held, so far as I know, by modern linguists, only by literary critics and the occasional philosopher.