
The Post-Romantic Predicament
Paul de Man(Author)
Martin Mcquillan(Editor)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 4. April 2012
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-7486-4105-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 Hoelderlin, 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.Key Features: * The first collection of texts by Paul de Man published since the posthumous Aesthetic Ideology (1997)* The missing link in the published de Man corpus* With an introduction by Martin McQullian, a leading de Man scholar
Reviews / Votes
'De Man's readings of Mallarme, Yeats, and George in the 1950s demonstrate how a reflection on an authentically poetic vocation cannot help but produce a concomitant reflection on what constitutes a genuinely literary criticism and theory. It is fascinating to see how de Man's pushing of a Hegelian phenomenological "method" to its limits engenders what we now call "de Manian" rhetorical or "deconstructive" reading. The Post-Romantic Predicament is essential reading for anyone concerned with the question of "the literary". -- Andrzej Warminski, University of California, Irvine 'De Man's readings of Mallarme, Yeats, and George in the 1950s demonstrate how a reflection on an authentically poetic vocation cannot help but produce a concomitant reflection on what constitutes a genuinely literary criticism and theory. It is fascinating to see how de Man's pushing of a Hegelian phenomenological "method" to its limits engenders what we now call "de Manian" rhetorical or "deconstructive" reading. The Post-Romantic Predicament is essential reading for anyone concerned with the question of "the literary".More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
529 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-4105-5 (9780748641055)
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Persons
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 a multi-award-winning filmmaker, journalist and writer. He is the editor of several texts by Paul de Man, including The Post-Romantic Predicament and The Paul de Man Notebooks. He teaches in the Sound/Image Cinema Lab at Falmouth University.
Author
Formerly Sterling Professor of French and Comparative LiteratureYale University
Editor
multi-award-winning filmmaker, journalist and writerFalmouth University
Content
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. 'Mallarme' (1960); Part I Herodiade; Part II Igitur; Part III Un coup de des; 3. 'Drama and History in Yeats' (1960); 4. 'Mallarme, George and Yeats' (c.1959); 5. 'Stefan George and Stephane Mallarme' (1952); 6. 'Stefan George and Friedrich Hoelderlin' (1954); Appendix: Dissertation fragment on Stefan George (c.1955); De Man's Bibliography to Chapters 2 and 3; Index.