Allegories of Reading

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Allegories of Reading

Allegories of Reading

Name: Allegories of Reading
ISBN: 9780300028454

Paul De Man, Professor Paul De Man

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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.

Categories:

Poetry - European Poetry

Content Type:

Books

Year:

1979

Publisher:

New Haven : Yale University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

344