Myth, Truth and Literature
Subtitle: Towards a True Post-Modernism
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 31, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780521423847
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism; Philosophy; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory
First sentence: 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.