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More than twenty years after his death, Paul de Man remains a haunting presence in the American academy. His name is linked not just with deconstruction, but with a deconstruction in Americathat continuesto disturb the institution it inhabits. The academy seems driven to characterize de Manian deconstruction, again and again, as dead. Such acts of exorcism testify that de Man's ghost has never been laid to rest, and for good reason: a dispassionate survey of recent trends in critical theory and practice reveals that de Man's influence is considerable and ongoing.These original essays analyze…mehr

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More than twenty years after his death, Paul de Man remains a haunting presence in the American academy. His name is linked not just with deconstruction, but with a deconstruction in Americathat continuesto disturb the institution it inhabits. The academy seems driven to characterize de Manian deconstruction, again and again, as dead. Such acts of exorcism testify that de Man's ghost has never been laid to rest, and for good reason: a dispassionate survey of recent trends in critical theory and practice reveals that de Man's influence is considerable and ongoing.These original essays analyze and evaluate aspects of de Man's powerful legacy. Contributions focus on: his great theme of reading; his complex notions of history, materiality, and aesthetic ideology; and hisinstitutional role as a teacher and, more generally, as a charismatic figure associated with the fortunes of theory.The collection concludes with two appendixes concerning de Man's teaching: a list of the courses he taught at Yale, and the undergraduate course proposal for Literatur
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Marc Redfield is Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Brown University. His most recent books are The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror (Fordham, 2009); and Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America (Fordham, 2016).