Paul Adolph Michel de Man

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deconstructionist critic human literary critic university teacher

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

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Paul Adolph Michel de Man canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	deconstructionist critic ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
birthCountry	Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthDate	1919-12-06 ⓘ
birthPlace	Antwerp NERFINISHED ⓘ
causeOfDeath	cancer ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Belgium ⓘ
deathDate	1983-12-21 ⓘ
educatedAt	Université libre de Bruxelles NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	Cornell University ⓘ Johns Hopkins University NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
familyName	de Man NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	comparative literature ⓘ deconstruction ⓘ literary theory ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ
genre	literary criticism ⓘ theory ⓘ
givenName	Paul ⓘ
hasOccupation	essayist ⓘ professor ⓘ
influenced	American literary theory ⓘ Yale School of deconstruction NERFINISHED ⓘ
influencedBy	Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ Jacques Derrida NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Heidegger NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	controversy over wartime journalism in Nazi-occupied Belgium ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ French ⓘ
memberOf	Yale School of criticism NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	deconstruction ⓘ
name	Paul Adolph Michel de Man NERFINISHED ⓘ
nativeLanguage	French ⓘ
notableFor	influence on deconstruction ⓘ work on rhetoric and reading ⓘ
notableWork	Allegories of Reading NERFINISHED ⓘ Blindness and Insight NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rhetoric of Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	Baltimore NERFINISHED ⓘ Ithaca, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New Haven NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Description of subject: Paul Adolph Michel de Man was a Belgian-born literary critic and theorist best known as a leading figure in deconstruction and for his influential yet controversial work on rhetoric and reading.

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