Synopses & Reviews
-- Cynthia Chase, author of Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition
Review
"De Man's work made writing about literature difficult, if irresistible, by inciting a tense awareness of the implicit claims or assumptions entailed in every interpretive move or rhetorical gesture." Cynthia Chase, author of Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition
Review
"De Man's legacy is an intellectual style of remarkable purity... a style marked by didactic fervour, whose undertow takes us into strange seas of thought, but it remains analytic and prosaic, with a minumum of semiotic play, and no mixing by montage of fiction and criticism." London Review of Books
Synopsis
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Synopsis
The author taught a generation of American critics what critical readings might mean. His philosophic reach, his self-critical scruple, and his inventive verbal precision combined to form an inimitable but deeply influential style. This collection holds special interest for its long, chronological range...The praise that de Man granted Yeats applies equally to his own work: it constantly warns against the danger of unwarranted hopeful solutions.
Synopsis
This last work by Paul de Man before his death in 1983 brings together what is essentially his complete work on the study of European Romanticism and post-Romanticism.