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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452345203321

Titolo

Reading de Man reading [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lindsay Waters and Wlad Godzich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989

ISBN

0-8166-8278-X

0-8166-1661-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 59

Altri autori (Persone)

WatersLindsay

GodzichWlad

Disciplina

801/.95/0924

Soggetti

Criticism - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Prefatory Note; Looking Back on Paul de Man; Psyche: Inventions of the Other; A Defence of Rhetoric / The Triumph of Reading; Lurid Figures; Allegories of Reading Paul de Man; Paul de Man's History; Pieces of Resistance; ""Reading"" Part of a Paragraph in Allegories of Reading; LECTIO: de Man's Imperative; Response to Paul de Man; Aberrations: de Man (and) the Machine; The Deconstruction of Politics; Lessons of Remembering and Forgetting; In-Difference to Philosophy: de Man on Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Thirteen essays address de Man's theory and practice of reading, including the nature of those readings and what they signify forreading in general, not just for literary texts.