Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
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| Management number | 233432046 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | US$9.76 | Model Number | 233432046 | ||
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"Through eleavorate & elegant close readings of poems by Rilke, Proust, Nietzxhes and the major works of Rousseau, de Man concludes that all writing concerns itself with its own activity as language, & 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 & convincingly, that language turns back on itself, that rhetoric is untrustworthy." Julie Epstein, Washington Post Book World Read more
| ISBN10 | 0300023227 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0300023220 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Item Weight | 0.01 ounces |
| Print length | 320 pages |
| Publication date | January 1, 1979 |
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