The post-Romantic predicament / Paul de Man ; edited by Martin McQuillan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Man, Paul.

Contributor:

McQuillan, Martin.

Series:

Frontiers of theory

The frontiers of theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

vii, 235 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Summary:

From 1955-1961 Paul de Man was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University where he wrote a doctoral thesis entitled The Post-Romantic Predicament: a study in the poetry of Mallarmé and Yeats'. These texts from this period include de Man's extended considerations of Stéphane Mallarmé and W. B. Yeats as well as essays on Hölderlin, Keats and Stefan George. This writing reflects recognisable concerns for de Man: the figurative dimension of language, the borders between philosophy and literature, the ideological obfuscations of Romanticism, and the difficulties of the North American heritage of New Criticism. These essays, brought together from the Paul de Man papers at the University of California (Irvine), make a significant contribution to the cultural history of deconstruction, and to the present state of literary theory. Book jacket.

Contents:

Paul de Man: Essays

1 Introduction to 'The Post-Romantic Predicament' (1960) 33

2 Mallarmé (1960) 36

Part I 'Hérodiade' 36

Part II 'Igitur' 59

Part III 'Un coup de dés' 84

3 Drama and History in Yeats (1960) 124

4 Mallarmé, George and Yeats (c.1959) 166

5 Stefan George and Stéphane Mallarmé (1952) 182

6 Stefan George and Friedrich Hölderlin (1954) 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748641055

074864105X

OCLC:

760290733