Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
by Paul de Man
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Through eleavorate & elegant close readings of poems by Rilke, Proust, Nietzsches 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. -- show more Amazon.com. show lessTags
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- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature, Philosophy
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- 809 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures
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