The Paul de Man Notebooks

Paul de Man; Martin McQuillan

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2014

The Paul de Man Notebooks

Paul de Man and Martin McQuillan

In the series The Frontiers of Theory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748670178

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Opens up de Man’s archive of notebooks, critical texts and papers for the first time

This anthology collects 36 texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art and literature, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews and reports on the state of comparative literature. Divided into 4 sections – Texts, Translations, Teaching and Research – these materials offer a fascinating insight into the work of one of the 20th century's most important literary theorists. The volume also engages with Paul de Man's institutional life, gathering together pedagogical and critical material to investigate his profound influence on the American academy and theory today. It contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and un-translated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career. Accompanied by the Editor’s insightful introduction and an extensive bibliography, this new collection of primary sources further enables the growing reappraisal of de Man's work.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction ‘The Unimaginable Touch of Time’: The Public and Private in the Notebooks of Paul de Man Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Texts
Introduction Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
1 The Drawings of Paul Valéry (1948) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2 Jacques Villon (1952) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3 Graduate Essay on Keats (1954) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4 Postdoctoral Essay on Symbolism (c.1960) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
5 Introduction to Madame Bovary (1965) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
6 Introduction to The Portable Rousseau (1973) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
7 On Reading Rousseau (1977) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
8 Translator’s Introduction to “Rousseau and English Romanticism” (1978) Patience Moll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
9 Rousseau and English Romanticism (1978) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
10 Introduction to Studies in Romanticism (1979) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
11 Hommage à Georges Poulet (1982) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
12 A Letter from Paul de Man (1982) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
13 Reply to Raymond Geuss (1983) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
14 Interview with Robert Moynihan (1984) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Part II: Translations
Introduction Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
15 Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry1 (1959) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
16 Essay on the Origin of Language: Melody and Musical Imitation Are Being Considered Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Part III: Teaching
Introduction Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
17 Field of Comparative Literature: Analysis of Needs (1967) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
18 The Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University: A Report Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
19 Comparative Literature 816a: Hegel and English Romanticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
20 Comparative Literature 816a: Hegel and English Romanticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
21 Comparative Literature 817a: Aesthetic Theory from Kant to Hegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
22 Curriculum for Lit Z Proposal (1975) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
23 Literature Z: Exercise II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
24 Rhetorical Readings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
25 Director’s Report on Rhetorical Reading (1982) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
26 Seminar on “Aesthetic Theory from Kant to Hegel”. Yale University, Fall Semester, 1982 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Part IV: Research
Introduction Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
27 The Unimaginable Touch of Time: Proposed Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
28 Modernism in Literature: Background and Essay Selection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
29 Modernism in Literature: Revised Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
30 The Portable Rousseau: Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
31 The Portable Rousseau: Principle of Selection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
32 Outline for a Monograph on Nietzsche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
33 From Nietzsche to Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
34 Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
35 Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ideology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
36 11/3/82 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Appendix The Notebooks of Paul de Man 1963–83 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 24 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: February 21, 2022
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