The Post-Romantic Predicament

ISBN-13: 9780748641055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 248 str.

Opis

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 Mallarme and Yeats'. This dissertation is presented alongside his other texts from this period, including essays on Holderlin, 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.
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Spis treści

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.