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Overview"More than twenty years after his death, Paul de Man remains a haunting presence in the American academy. His name is linked not just with ""deconstruction,"" but with a ""deconstruction in America"" that continues to disturb the scholarly and pedagogical institution it inhabits. The academy seems driven to characterize ""de Manian deconstruction,"" again and again, as dead. Such reiterated acts of exorcism testify that de Man's ghost has in fact never been laid to rest, and for good reason: a dispassionate survey of recent trends in critical theory and practice reveals that de Man's influence is considerable and ongoing. His name still commands an aura of excitement, even danger: it stands for the pressure of a text and a ""theory"" that resists easy assimilation or containment. The essays in this volume analyze and evaluate aspects of de Man's strange, powerful legacy. The opening contributions focus on his great theme of ""reading""; subsequent chapters explore his complex notions of ""history,"" ""materiality,"" and ""aesthetic ideology,"" and examine his institutional role as a teacher and, more generally, as a charismatic figure associated with the fortunes of ""theory."" Because the notion of legacy immediately raises questions about the institutional transmission of thought, the collection concludes with two appendixes offering documentary aids to scholars interested in de Man as an institutional presence and pedagogue. The first appendix lists the courses taught by de Man at Yale; the second makes available a previously unpublished document, almost certainly authored by de Man: a course proposal for the undergraduate course ""Literature Z"" that de Man and Geoffrey Hartman began teaching at Yale in the spring of 1977." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marc Redfield , Ian Balfour , Cynthia Chase , Sara Emilie GuyerPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9780823227617ISBN 10: 0823227618 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 15 March 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA remarkable collection of essays brimming with forceful arguments and telling interventions. The volume is itself an example of the complexity and critical power of the legacy that it so thoughtfully explores, at once caught in the wake of de ManGCOs thought and critically traversing that wake in ways that make its enduring features legible, important, and endlessly productive. GCoDavid L. Clark, McMaster University In this volume, Redfield [explores] eight papers that engage with varied strands of de Man's theoretical legacy. Author InformationMarc Redfield is Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Brown University. His most recent books are The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror (Fordham, 2009); and Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America (Fordham, 2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |