Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust by Paul De Man

Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

Paul De Man

305 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust.  The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engender...

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