The Paul de Man Notebooks (The Frontiers of Theory) - Hardcover

De Man, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748641041 ISBN 13: 9780748641048

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This anthology collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature. These texts offer a fascinating insight into the work of one of the twentieth century's most important literary theorists. The volume engages with Paul de Man's institutional life, gathering together pedagogical and critical material to investigate his profound influence on the American academy and theory today. It also contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and untranslated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career. As a new collection of primary sources this volume further stimulates the growing reappraisal of de Man's work.

About this title

About the Author:

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 Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis at the London Graduate School and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0748641041
• ISBN 13: 9780748641048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: McQuillan Martin