Blindness and Insight

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book essay collection

Blindness and Insight is a seminal collection of literary-critical essays by Paul de Man that helped define deconstructionist theory and reshape modern literary criticism.

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Blindness and Insight canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ essay collection ⓘ
academicDiscipline	English studies NERFINISHED ⓘ comparative literature ⓘ
addresses	instability of literary meaning ⓘ limits of critical knowledge ⓘ relationship between theory and reading ⓘ
author	Paul de Man NERFINISHED ⓘ
centralConcept	blindness in reading ⓘ insight in interpretation ⓘ rhetorical reading ⓘ self-reflexivity of criticism ⓘ undecidability of meaning ⓘ
countryOfPublication	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
field	humanities ⓘ literary studies ⓘ
genre	critical theory ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	deconstructionist theory ⓘ modern literary criticism ⓘ
hasPart	essay "Criticism and Crisis" ⓘ essay "Form and Intent in the American New Criticism" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Heidegger’s Exegeses of Hölderlin" ⓘ essay "The Concept of Irony" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Intentional Structure of the Romantic Image" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Rhetoric of Blindness" ⓘ essay "The Rhetoric of Persuasion" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Rhetoric of Temporality" NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasReception	considered a seminal work in literary theory ⓘ widely studied in graduate literary programs ⓘ
influenced	Anglo-American literary theory ⓘ Yale School of deconstruction NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainSubject	Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ aesthetics ⓘ literary theory ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ reading and interpretation ⓘ rhetoric of criticism ⓘ
movement	deconstruction ⓘ
notableFor	helping define deconstructionist theory ⓘ reshaping modern literary criticism ⓘ
publicationCentury	20th century ⓘ
publisher	Oxford University Press ⓘ
theoreticalOrientation	deconstruction ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ

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