Paul de Man /Martin Mcquillan.

McQuillan, Martin.

Paul de Man /Martin Mcquillan. - London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2001. - 1 online resource (x, 143 pages). - Routledge critical thinkers .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editor's preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; WHY DE MAN?; KEY IDEAS; Literary language and misreading: Blindness and Insight; Rhetoric, reading and deconstruction: Allegories of Reading; Deconstruction as an experience of the impossible: The Resistance toTheory; Disfiguration, defacement and autobiography: The Rhetoric of Romanticism; Politics, philosophy and the figural: Aesthetic Ideology; Responsibility and authorship: De Man's wartime journalism; AFTER DE MAN; Appendix: 'The Jews in Contemporary Literature'; FURTHER READING; Works cited. Index.

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.



9780203183373 9780203189597

0415215129 Uk


De Man, Paul.


Deconstruction.


Electronic Books.

PN75 / .P385 2001