Paul de Man

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Paul de Man was a Belgian-born literary critic and theorist, best known as a leading figure in deconstruction and for his influential work on rhetoric and reading in literary texts.

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instanceOf academic
human
literary critic
literary theorist
academicDiscipline literature
philosophy of language
areaOfInfluence American literary criticism
continental philosophy in the United States
causeOfDeath cancer
controversy wartime journalism in Nazi-occupied Belgium
countryOfCitizenship Belgium
dateOfBirth 1919-12-06
dateOfDeath 1983-12-21
educatedAt Université libre de Bruxelles
employer Cornell University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Yale University
fieldOfWork comparative literature
deconstruction
literary theory
rhetoric
fullName Paul Adolph Michel de Man
genre literary criticism
theoretical essays
influenced Barbara Johnson
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
J. Hillis Miller
surface form: Geoffrey Hartman

J. Hillis Miller
influencedBy Friedrich Nietzsche
Jacques Derrida
Martin Heidegger
knownFor close reading of rhetorical figures
emphasis on unreadability and textual instability
languageOfWorkOrName English
French
movement Yale School of deconstruction
notableFor contributions to deconstruction
influence on literary criticism
theory of reading and rhetoric
notableWork Allegories of Reading
Blindness and Insight
Resistance to Theory
The Rhetoric of Romanticism
philosophicalSchool deconstruction
placeOfBirth Antwerp
surface form: Antwerp, Belgium
placeOfDeath New Haven, Connecticut
surface form: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
positionHeld Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University
workLocation New Haven, Connecticut
surface form: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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