The Paul de Man Notebooks (The Frontiers of Theory) 1st Edition by Paul de Man (PDF)

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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 It also contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and untranslated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career.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.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Opens up de Man’s archive of notebooks, critical texts and papers for the first time This anthology collects thirty-six texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art and literature, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews and reports on the state of comparative literature. Divided into four sections – Texts, Translations, Teaching and Research – these materials offer a fascinating insight into the work of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary theorists. The volume also 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 It also contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and un-translated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career. Accompanied by the Editor’s insightful introduction and an extensive bibliography, this new collection of primary sources will further enable the growing reappraisal of de Man’s work. 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. His recent publications include Deconstruction After 9/11 (2008) and Roland Barthes, or, The Profession of Cultural Studies (2010). He is also the editor of other works on Paul de Man for Edinburgh University Press: The Post-Romantic Predicament (2013) and The Political Archive of Paul de Man: Sovereignty, Property and the Theotropic (2013). Cover image: Theo van Rysselberghe Voilier sur l’Escaut (Sailing Boat on the River Escaut), 1892 © akg-images. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com 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 was 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. His recent publications include Deconstruction After 9/11(London: Routledge, 2008) and Roland Barthes, or, The Profession of Cultural Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

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