The Post-Romantic Predicament

Paul de Man; Martin McQuillan

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2012

The Post-Romantic Predicament

Paul de Man and Martin McQuillan

In the series The Frontiers of Theory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748656233

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About this book

A collection of critical texts from Paul de Man's Harvard University years, published for the first time

These essays, brought together from the Paul de Man papers at the University of California (Irvine), make a significant contribution to the cultural history of deconstruction and the present state of literary theory. From 1955 to 1961, Paul de Man was Junior Fellow at Harvard University where he wrote a doctoral thesis entitled 'The Post-Romantic Predicament: a study in the poetry of Mallarmé and Yeats'. This dissertation is presented alongside his other texts from this period, including essays on Hölderlin, Keats and Stefan George.

This collection reflects familiar concerns for de Man: the figurative dimension of language, the borders between philosophy and literature, the ideological obfuscations of Romanticism, and the difficulties of the North American heritage of New Criticism.

Key Features

The first collection of texts by Paul de Man published since the posthumous Aesthetic Ideology (1997)
The missing link in the published de Man corpus
Showcases important contributions to the analysis of Romantic and Post-Romantic poetry that engaged de Man for most of his life

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Editor’s Note on The Post-Romantic Predicament Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
‘No Country for Old Men’: Paul de Man and the Post-Romantic Predicament Martin McQuillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Paul de Man: Essays
1. Introduction to ‘The Post-Romantic Predicament’ (1960) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2. Mallarmé (1960) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. Drama and History in Yeats (1960) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
4. Mallarmé, George and Yeats (c.1959) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
5. Stefan George and Stéphane Mallarmé (1952) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
6. Stefan George and Friedrich Hölderlin (1954) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Appendix: Dissertation Fragment on Stefan George (c.1955) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
De Man’s Bibliography to Chapter 2 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 4, 2012
ISBN: 9780748656233