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Cover; Blindness And Insight; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table Of Contents; Foreword; Foreword To Revised, Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction Caution! Reader At Work! Wlad Godzich; I Criticism And Crisis; Ii Form And Intent In The American New Criticism; Iii Ludwig Binswanger And The Sublimation Of The Self; Iv Georg Lukác's Theory Of The Novel; V Impersonality In The Criticism Of Maurice Blanchot; Vi The Literary Self As Origin: The Work Of Georges Poulet; Vii The Rhetoric Of Blindness: Jacques Derrida's Reading Of Rousseau; Viii Literary History And Literary Modernity. Ix Lyric And Modernityx The Rhetoric Of Temporality; Xi The Dead-end Of Formalist Criticism; Xii Heidegger's Exegeses Of Hölderlin; Appendix A: Review Of Harold Bloom's Anxiety Of Influence; Appendix B: Literature And Language: A Commentary; Index. Paul De Man; Introduction By Wlad Godzich. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Ipswich, Ma Available Via World Wide Web.
This work investigates the inherent tension between the critical desire for clarity and the inevitable blindness that accompanies the act of interpretation. Paul de Man, a central figure in the development of deconstruction, utilizes his extensive background in comparative literature and philosophy to argue that literary texts possess a rhetorical structure that undermines their own stated intentions. By examining the works of various European and American thinkers, he demonstrates how the very tools used to analyze literature often obscure the deeper, contradictory meanings embedded within the language itself.
What You Will Find
Scholars and critics widely recognize this text as a foundational document for the deconstructionist movement in literary studies. Readers frequently note the high level of academic density and the rigorous, often challenging nature of de Man's prose.
Page Count:
0
Publication Date:
2013-01-01
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10:
1135854963
ISBN-13:
9780203713716
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