...(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983). 2 John Berger, Ways of Seeing (Penguin Books, 1977). 3 Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language...and Proust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979). 4 Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York:...

...(letter to Neil Hertz, January 11, 1988). It seems, however, that they continued a few months longer. 40. De Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in...and Proust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), p. 278; hereafter abbreviated A. 41. De Man, The Rhetoric of Romanticism (New York: Columbia University...

...properly tropological and material study of the exemplarity of language that we call literature. - Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language...and Proust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), p. xi; and Paul de Man, The Rhetoric of Romanticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), pp....

...its entirety, will no doubt demand of us considerable effort, perspicuity, and persistence. NOTES 1. Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language...and Proust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), 150; hereafter cited in text as AR. 2.. Shoshana Felman, "Postal Survival, or the Question of the Navel,"...

...back (Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1985) and J.-L. Marion, Dieu sans I'etre (Paris: Fayard, 1982). 59 De Man, Allegories of reading: figural language in...and Proust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), px tised under the rubric of trace, differance or archi-ecriture - words which name a mode of difference...

...u Jacques Derrida, Of Grammaiology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), p. 20. 27 See Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language...and Proust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. is here especially apt, because in a pun each atom of language, each letter, is split.24 The passage...

...The Rhetoric of Romanticism (op. cit.), p. 263. 23. De Man, 'Aesthetic formalization', p. 265. 24. De Man, Allegories of Reading: figural language in...and Proust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 11-12. 25. De Man, 'Aesthetic formalization', p. 289. 26. On this topic see for instance GS Rousseau,...

...P, 1981), 26. 2 Michael Riffaterre, Semiotics of Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978), 164-65. 3 Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language...Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust (New Haven: Yale UP, 1979), 17. 4 Vincent Leitch, Deconstructive Criticism: An Advanced Introduction (New York: Columbia...

...premise of my reading of de Man's essay and let my readers judge whether that reading itself succeeds 19 Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading : Figural Language...and Proust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979). in giving the premise plausibility. I must ask those readers' patience, as Wordsworth himself does,...

...promissory notes in which the present of the promise is always a past with regard to its realization. (Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language...and Proust [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979], 273) 6. In the well-known case of United States v. Holmes, this promise is described in the following...