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Through eleavorate & elegant close readings of poems by Rilke, Proust, Nietzsches and the major works of Rousseau, de Man concludes that all writing concerns itself with its own activity as language, & language, he says, is always unreliable, slippery, impossible...Literary narrative, because it must rely on language, tells the story of its own inability to tell a story.... De Man demonstrates, beautifully & convincingly, that language turns back on itself, that rhetoric is untrustworthy. -- Amazon.com
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Allegories of Reading, Paul de Man
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- Released
- 1982
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Allegories of Reading
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Paul de Man
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Released
- 1982
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 305
- ISBN10
- 0300028458
- ISBN13
- 9780300028454
- Series
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Through eleavorate & elegant close readings of poems by Rilke, Proust, Nietzsches and the major works of Rousseau, de Man concludes that all writing concerns itself with its own activity as language, & language, he says, is always unreliable, slippery, impossible...Literary narrative, because it must rely on language, tells the story of its own inability to tell a story.... De Man demonstrates, beautifully & convincingly, that language turns back on itself, that rhetoric is untrustworthy. -- Amazon.com