The Post-Romantic Predicament

by Martin McQuillan, Paul Man

Overview

A collection of critical texts from Paul de Man's Harvard University years, published for the first timeThese 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 Mallarme and Yeats'. This dissertation is presented alongside his other texts from this period, including essays on Holderlin, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748656257
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	04/04/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis at the London Graduate School and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at the Kingston University

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface vi

Acknowledgement viii

Editor's Note ix

'No Country for Old Men': Paul de Man and the Post-Romantic Predicament Martin McQuillan 1

Paul de Man: Essays

1 Introduction to 'The Post-Romantic Predicament' (1960) 33

2 Mallarmé (1960) 36

Part I 'Hérodiade' 36

Part II 'Igitur' 59

Part III 'Un coup de dés' 84

3 Drama and History in Yeats (1960) 124

4 Mallarmé, George and Yeats (c.1959) 166

5 Stefan George and Stéphane Mallarmé (1952) 182

6 Stefan George and Friedrich Hölderlin (1954) 196

Appendix: Dissertation Fragment on Stefan George (c.1955) 215

De Man's Bibliography to Chapter 2 227

Index 231

Editorial Reviews

This is among the most significant books of recent years, and required reading for those interested in French and German literature and theory.... Highly recommended.

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