...This chapter examines Paul de Man's formative account of the lyric, its simultaneous interest in animation and allergy to matters of life, before turning to Barbara Johnson's feminist revision of de Man in order to develop a theory of biopoetics. Biopoetics reveals that literature...

...This chapter examines how “rhetoric” has been defined and used in different fields within the discipline of English. It examines the writings of two key figures—Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke— who have used rhetoric to underwrite their critical projects. Analyzing de Man and Burke’s respective works...

...More than twenty years after his death, Paul de Man remains a haunting presence in the American academy. His name is linked not just with deconstruction, but with a deconstruction in America that continues to disturb the scholarly and pedagogical institution it inhabits. The academy seems driven...

...In his book Allegories of Reading, Paul de Man reviews Friedrich Nietzsche's notion that the paradigmatic structure of language is rhetorical instead of representational. This chapter presents discussions in which de Man differentiates between metaphor and metonymy after Jakobson's...

...Redfield examines Tansey’s iconic “theory paintings,” in particular the famous picture which depicts Derrida and de Man poised together in an “ambiguous dance-struggle” on a precarious precipice above an abyss that invokes...

...This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the speech act theory that was originally developed by J. L Austin and further developed by Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. This book examines the application of the speech act theory in the characters of some notable...

...The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction. Three modes...

...This chapter looks at how writing and theory are superimposed in Rosseau's novel, Julie or the New Heloise. Drawing upon two of Paul de Man's readings of the novel in his Allegories of Reading, the chapter embarks on a discussion regarding passion, which...

... in relation to Paul de Man's Aesthetic Ideology and his concept of the materiality of the letter. This allows for an examination of the way in which Coetzee's text resists an accrual of spectacular power that was offered by the exposure of state torture in the South African Truth...

... the role of writing is considered, well known since Starobinski as the route Rousseau takes to circumvent embarrassment. confession de Man Paul discourse embarrassment performative Rousseau Jean Jacques shame Baudelaire Charles lack referentiality signifier Benveniste Émile constative rupture...

...At once engaging de Man and revealing the ambivalent moves between futurity and non-development which saturate that famous reading, Edelman uncovers in Shelley a historical pathologization of the turn to life, and its attending...

...“The Aesthetics and Politics of Error,” analyzes “error” as a defective, erroneous political concept through literature (César Aira’s 2010 novel El error), critical theory (Paul de Man’s Blindness and Insight), and political discourse (the theatrical actions...

..., that would advance a notion of knowledge, or truths, that pertain to the logic of testimony and witnessing, but which are themselves unprovable in an empirical sense. It may seem a strange moment to turn, or return, to figures such as Jacques Derrida or Paul de Man, thinkers that have been wrongly accused...

...No writer in the 20^th century was more responsive to the possibilities and pitfalls of irony than Paul de Man. Although the term “irony” is not deployed in sustained manner in his last writings, it could be argued that irony remained de Man's constant object of interrogation and concern...

... of Terrors. The shuttling between document and text practiced by the “Old Reconstructed New Critic” produces something that resembles a usefully demystified version of Paul de Man's “allegories of reading.” In the concluding chapter of Situated Utterances, Berger again considers...

... forgiveness Kofman Sarah Pourquoi rit on? Kofman Nietzsche Friedrich “Passages” Derrida interview silence The Sunflower Wiesenthal Wiesenthal Simon anti Semitism responsibility testimony “Damned Food” Kofman allegory de Man Paul “The Jews in Contemporary Literature” de Man Memoires for Paul de...

... in twentieth-century French thought and writing. It includes chapters on Friedrich Schlegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Paul de Man. A coda traces the way unresolved tensions inherited from romanticism resurface in a novelist like J...