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Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust Paperback - 1982
by de Man, Paul
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- Title Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
- Author de Man, Paul
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
- Date 1982-09-10
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0300028458
- ISBN 9780300028454 / 0300028458
- Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.18 x 6.14 x 0.83 in (23.32 x 15.60 x 2.11 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Germany
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 79064075
- Dewey Decimal Code 809
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'Through elaborate and elegant close readings of poems by Rilke, Proust's Remembrance, Nietzsche's philosophical writings and the major works of Rousseau, de Man concludes that all writing concerns itself with its own activity as language, and language, he says is always unreliable, slippery, impossible....Literary narrative, because it must rely on language, tells the story of its own inability to tell a story....De Man demonstrates, beautifully and convincingly, that language turns back on itself, that rhetoric is untrustworthy.' Julia Epstein, Washington Post Book World