Paul de Man

The Resistance to Theory

Essays defending theory's role in literary criticism and textual analysis

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Paul de Man

Belgian-American literary theorist who, with Derrida, founded deconstruction in the American academy. Allegories of Reading and Blindness and Insight are his major works. After his death, Nazi collaborationist journalism he wrote in his youth was discovered, igniting major controversy.

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