Slow Deconstruction
David Bromwich, 7 October 1993
Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminars and Other Papers
by Paul de Man, edited by E.S. Burt, Kevin Newmark and Andrzej Warminski.
Johns Hopkins, 212 pp., £21.50, March 1993,0 8018 4461 4 Show More
by Paul de Man, edited by E.S. Burt, Kevin Newmark and Andrzej Warminski.
Johns Hopkins, 212 pp., £21.50, March 1993,
Serenity in Crisis: A Preface to Paul de Man 1939-1960
by Ortwin de Graef.
Nebraska, 240 pp., £29.95, January 1993,0 8032 1694 7 Show More
by Ortwin de Graef.
Nebraska, 240 pp., £29.95, January 1993,
“... and was convinced that literature must be unique in the knowledge it afforded, or else in giving a master-clue to the delusion of every sort of knowledge including its own. A stance like his might plausibly lead away from the study of literature, into politics for example, or the study of philosophy or psychology. Yet he appears by temperament ... ”
