Reading De Man Reading
Reading De Man Reading
Univ Of Minnesota Press | April 1, 1989 | ISBN-10: 0816616612 | 328 pages | PDF | 19.01 MB
Univ Of Minnesota Press | April 1, 1989 | ISBN-10: 0816616612 | 328 pages | PDF | 19.01 MB
Reading De Man Reading was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Paul de Man, from the outset of his career, concerned himself with the act of reading and with discovering what a rigorous mode of reading can produce. The contributors to this volume—conceived not long before de Man's death in 1983—address his theory and practice of reading: the nature of those readings and what they signify for reading in general, not just for literary texts. De Man explored the act of reading because in it he could bring together—in order to cancel—the subjects known as reader and writer, the referent known as reality, and the medium known as language. In the act of reading de Man, the authors of this book ask where his work leaves us, what changes he made in the world of criticism and writing in general, and what we do differently because of him.