Post-Romantic Predicament

AvPaul de Man,Martin McQuillan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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A collection of critical texts from Paul de Man's Harvard University years, published for the first timeThese 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 the present state of literary theory. From 1955 to 1961, Paul de Man was 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'. This dissertation is presented alongside his other texts from this period, including essays on Hölderlin, Keats and Stefan George. This collection reflects familiar 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.Key Features: • The first collection of texts by Paul de Man published since the posthumous Aesthetic Ideology (1997)• The missing link in the published de Man corpus• With an introduction by Martin McQullian, a leading de Man scholar

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-04-04
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Frontiers of Theory
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748641055

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Paul de Man (1919-83) was the Sterling Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the author of some of the most important works of literary theory and deconstruction including Blindness and Insight, Allegories of Reading, The Rhetoric of Romanticism, and Aesthetic Ideology. Martin McQuillan is a multi-award-winning filmmaker, journalist and writer. He is the editor of several texts by Paul de Man, including The Post-Romantic Predicament and The Paul de Man Notebooks. He teaches in the Sound/Image Cinema Lab at Falmouth University.

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'De Man's readings of Mallarme, Yeats, and George in the 1950s demonstrate how a reflection on an authentically poetic vocation cannot help but produce a concomitant reflection on what constitutes a genuinely literary criticism and theory. It is fascinating to see how de Man's pushing of a Hegelian phenomenological "method" to its limits engenders what we now call "de Manian" rhetorical or "deconstructive" reading. The Post-Romantic Predicament is essential reading for anyone concerned with the question of "the literary". -- Andrzej Warminski, University of California, Irvine 'De Man's readings of Mallarme, Yeats, and George in the 1950s demonstrate how a reflection on an authentically poetic vocation cannot help but produce a concomitant reflection on what constitutes a genuinely literary criticism and theory. It is fascinating to see how de Man's pushing of a Hegelian phenomenological "method" to its limits engenders what we now call "de Manian" rhetorical or "deconstructive" reading. The Post-Romantic Predicament is essential reading for anyone concerned with the question of "the literary".

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; 'No country for old men': Paul de Man and the Post-Romantic Predicament, Martin McQuillan; Paul de Man: Essays; 1. Introduction to 'The Post-Romantic Predicament'; 2. 'Mallarmé' (1960); Part I Hérodiade; Part II Igitur; Part III Un coup de dés; 3. 'Drama and History in Yeats' (1960); 4. 'Mallarmé, George and Yeats' (c.1959); 5. 'Stefan George and Stéphane Mallarmé' (1952); 6. 'Stefan George and Friedrich Hölderlin' (1954); Appendix: Dissertation fragment on Stefan George (c.1955); De Man's Bibliography to Chapters 2 and 3; Index.