Critical writings, 1953-1978 / Paul de Man ; edited and with an introduction by Lindsay Waters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Man, Paul.

Contributor:

Waters, Lindsay.

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 66.

Theory and history of literature ; v. 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxxiv, 246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twenty-five essays and reviews not previously collected, most of which were written before 1970, and eight of which are appearing in English for the first time.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Montaigne and Transcendence (1953); The Inward Generation (1955); Poetic Nothingness: On a Hermetic Sonnet by Mallarmé (1955); The Temptation of Permanence (1955); Keats and Hölderlin (1956); Situation of the Novel (1956); Process and Poetry (1956); Thematic Criticism and the Theme of Faust (1957); A New Vitalism: Harold Bloom (1962); Giraudoux (1963); Heidegger Reconsidered (1964); Spacecritics: J. Hillis Miller and Joseph Frank (1964); Sartre's Confessions (1964); A Modern Master: Jorge Luís Borges (1964); Whatever Happened to André Gide? (1965)

What Is Modern? (1965)The Mask of Albert Camus (1965); Modern Poetics in France and Germany (1965); The Literature of Nihilism (1966); Madame de Staël and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1966); Introduction to the Poetry of John Keats (1966); The Riddle of Hölderlin (1970); Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (1970); Foreword to Carol Jacobs, The Dissimulating Harmony (1978); Sources; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 227-228.

ISBN:

0-8166-8289-5

OCLC:

171126517