Paul De Man

Author : Evelyn Barish
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871403269
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Double Life of Paul De Man written by Evelyn Barish and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the Yale University professor behind the deconstruction movement, who at the time of his death was one of the most influential literary critics in America but was later revealed to be a Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite.

Author : Paul de Man
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748670173
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul de Man Notebooks written by Paul de Man and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology collects 36 texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art and literature, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature.

Author : Paul de Man
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135854963
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blindness and Insight written by Paul de Man and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blindness and Insight , de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism. Not only are the critics unaware of this gap, says de Man, but their blindness to it often leads to some of their most valuable insights. The central issue of de Man's work is the rhetorical constitution of the text, and this book, with its new introduction by Wlad Godzich and five additional essays by de Man, is meant to challenge readers to a new appreciation of their chosen task as readers of literature. Included in this new edition are the original essays on Binswanger, Poulet, Lukas, Blanchot, the New Critics, and Derrida's `of Grammatology', as well as five more: `The Rhetoric of Temporality', `The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism', `Heidegger's Exegesis of Holderlin', a review of Bloom's `Anxiety of Influence, and `Literature and Language'.

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780671775940
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of the Times written by David Lehman and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1992 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most talked about books of the year. "A lucid and fiercely intelligent study of the disturbing implications of deconstruction, and at the same time, an impassioned argument for a more humane study of literature".--The New York Times.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231062336
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoires for Paul De Man written by Jacques Derrida and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to one of the fathers of deconstruction as well as an extended essay on memory, death, and friendship.

Author : Paul De Man
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300028454
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allegories of Reading written by Paul De Man and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by these authors, and they return to the places in the text where those difficulties are most apparent or most incisively reflected upon. The close reading leads to the elaboration of a more general model of textual understanding, in which de Man shows that the thematic aspects of the texts--their assertions of truth or falsehood as well as their assertions of values--are linked to specific modes of figuration that can be identified and described. The description of synchronic figures of substitution leads, by an inner logic embedded in the structure of all tropes, to extended, narrative figures or allegories. De Man poses the question whether such self-generating systems of figuration can account fully for the intricacies of meaning and of signification they produce. Throughout the book, issues in contemporary criticism are addressed analytically rather than polemically. Traditional oppositions are put in question by a rhetorical analysis which demonstrates why literary texts are such powerful sources of meaning yet epistemologically so unreliable. Since the structure which underlies this tension belongs to language in general and is not confined to literary texts, the book, starting out as practical and historical criticism or as the demonstration of a theory of literary reading, leads into larger questions pertaining to the philosophy of language. "Through elaborate and elegant close readings of poems by Rilke, Proust's Remembrance, Nietzsche's philosophical writings and the major works of Rousseau, de Man concludes that all writing concerns itself with its own activity as language, and language, he says, is always unreliable, slippery, impossible....Literary narrative, because it must rely on language, tells the story of its own inability to tell a story....De Man demonstrates, beautifully and convincingly, that language turns back on itself, that rhetoric is untrustworthy."--Julia Epstein, Washington Post Book World "The study follows out of the thinking of Nietzsche and Genette (among others), yet moves in strikingly new directions....De Man's text, almost certain to be endlessly provocative, is worthy of repeated re-reading."--Ralph Flores, Library Journal "Paul de Man continues his work in the tradition of 'deconstructionist criticism, '... which] begins with the observation that all language is constructed; therefore the task of criticism is to deconstruct it and reveal what lies behind. The title of his new work reflects de Man's preoccupation with the unreliability of language. ... The contributions that the book makes, both in the initial theoretical chapters and in the detailed analyses (or deconstructions) of particular texts are undeniable."--Caroline D. Eckhardt, World Literature Today

Author : Paul De Man
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900735
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resistance to Theory written by Paul De Man and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lindsay Waters
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816616604
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading De Man Reading written by Lindsay Waters and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Werner Hamacher
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272439
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Responses written by Werner Hamacher and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays serves as a forum for a broad spectrum of responses to the war-time writing of Paul de Man, responses rarely in agreement and often sharply contradictory, differing in approach, affect, and style. Responses engages in reading de Man’s early articles, in articulating their multiple contexts, then and now, and in opening the limitations imposed by rubrics like “the case of Paul de Man” and “deconstruction politics.” Responses brings together the readings and commentaries of literary critics and historians from the United States and Europe, with their diverse strategies—historical, rhetorical, psychological, political. The primary aims of these essays are reading de Man’s texts, from 1940 to 1983, and assessing them in their political, ideological, and institutional fields. Responses also provides essential historical materials—letters, documents, personal recollections—on Le Soir and Het Vlaamsche Land, on the occupation of Belgium, and on the biography of Paul de Man. An appendix collects the recent reactions of newspapers in the United States and Europe (France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, and elsewhere) to the discovery of de Man’s wartime writings. Contributors include Yves Bonnefoy, Cynthia Chase, Else de Bens, Ortwin de Graef, Jacques Derrida, Rodolphe Gasche, Gerald Graff, Barbara Johnson, Jeffrey Mehlman, J. Hillis Miller, Edward Said, Marc Shell, Gayatri Spivak, and others. The collection appears under the auspices of the Oxford Literary Review, England’s leading theoretical journal for over a decade.

Author : Martin McQuillan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415215138
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul de Man written by Martin McQuillan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul de Man's work is key to the American deconstruction movement and to the so-called political turn in critical theory. Seventeen years after his death, his works continue to arouse violent reactions among critics. This book explains why de Man is such an important voice, detailing his critical position, exploring his intellectual and historical contexts, tracing the influence of his work and enabling readers to undertake independent study of his criticism.