Paul de Man Notebooks

Paul de Man Notebooks
Author: Paul de Man
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748670173

This anthology collects 36 texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art and literature, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature.

Paul de Man Notebooks

Paul de Man Notebooks
Author: de Man Paul de Man
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2016-02-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748691618

This anthology collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature. These texts offer a fascinating insight into the work of one of the twentieth century's most important literary theorists. The volume engages with Paul de Man's institutional life, gathering together pedagogical and critical material to investigate his profound influence on the American academy and theory today. It also contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and untranslated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career. As a new collection of primary sources this volume further stimulates the growing reappraisal of de Man's work.

The Rhetoric of Romanticism

The Rhetoric of Romanticism
Author: Paul de Man
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780231532907

-- Cynthia Chase, author of Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition

The Double Life of Paul De Man

The Double Life of Paul De Man
Author: Evelyn Barish
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0871403269

Describes the life of the Yale University professor behind the deconstruction movement, who at the time of his death was one of the most influential literary critics in America but was later revealed to be a Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307787761

This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven to be one of the most influential and enduring works of fiction of our century. Malte Laurids Brigge is a young Danish nobleman and poet living in Paris. Obsessed with death and with the reality that lurks behind appearances, Brigge muses on his family and their history and on the teeming, alien life of the city. Many of the themes and images that occur in Rilke's poetry can also be found in the novel, prefiguring the modernist movement in its self-awareness and imagistic immediacy.

Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology

Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology
Author: Fred Orton
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004503331

Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology anthologises some of Fred Orton’s important contributions to rethinking the social history of art and art practice. More than that, it offers a vivid demonstration of how theory can generate new interpretations and unsettle old ones.

The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
Author: Robert Frost
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 856
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674023116

Robert Frost is one of the most widely read, well loved, and misunderstood of modern writers. In his day, he was also an inveterate note-taker, penning thousands of intense aphoristic thoughts, observations, and meditations in small pocket pads and school theme books throughout his life. These notebooks, transcribed and presented here in their entirety for the first time, offer unprecedented insight into Frost's complex and often highly contradictory thinking about poetics, politics, education, psychology, science, and religion--his attitude toward Marxism, the New Deal, World War--as well as Yeats, Pound, Santayana, and William James. Covering a period from the late 1890s to early 1960s, the notebooks reveal the full range of the mind of one of America's greatest poets. Their depth and complexity convey the restless and probing quality of his thought, and show how the unruliness of chaotic modernity was always just beneath his appearance of supreme poetic control. Edited and annotated by Robert Faggen, the notebooks are cross-referenced to mark thematic connections within these and Frost's other writings, including his poetry, letters, and other prose. This is a major new addition to the canon of Robert Frost's writings.

The Power Notebooks

The Power Notebooks
Author: Katie Roiphe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982128038

Katie Roiphe, culture writer and author of The Morning After, shares a “beautifully written” (The New York Times Book Review) “astute memoir [that] reverberates with rich prose, crisp pacing, and self-compassion” (Publishers Weekly) and an essential discussion of how strong women experience their power. Told in a series of notebook entries, Roiphe weaves her often fraught personal experiences with divorce, single motherhood, and relationships with insights into the lives and loves of famous writers such as Sylvia Plath and Simone de Beauvoir. She dissects the way she and other ordinary, powerful women have subjugated their own power time and time again, and she probes brilliantly at the tricky, uncomfortable question of why. “Although Ms. Roiphe seems to be exposing her vulnerabilities here, she is actually, once again, demonstrating her unique brand of fearlessness” (The Wall Street Journal). The Power Notebooks is Roiphe’s most vital, thought-provoking, and emotionally intimate work yet.

Paul de Man

Paul de Man
Author: Martin McQuillan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2001
Genre: Deconstruction
ISBN: 9780415215138

Paul de Man's work is key to the American deconstruction movement and to the so-called political turn in critical theory. Seventeen years after his death, his works continue to arouse violent reactions among critics. This book explains why de Man is such an important voice, detailing his critical position, exploring his intellectual and historical contexts, tracing the influence of his work and enabling readers to undertake independent study of his criticism.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
Author: Joseph Joubert
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2005-06-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781590171486

The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true name" while asking us to "remember everything is double." "Joubert speaks in whispers," Auster writes. "One must draw very close to hear what he is saying."