| Description |
xi, 305 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Rhetoric Semiology and rhetoric -- Tropes (Rilke) -- Reading (Proust) -- Genesis and genealogy (Nietzsche) -- Rhetoric of Tropes (Nietzsche) -- Rhetoric of persuasion (Nietzsche) -- pt. 2. Rousseau Metaphor (Second discourse) -- Self (Pygmalion) -- Allegory (Julie) -- Allegory of reading (Profession de foi) -- Promises (Social contract) -- Excuses (Confessions) |
| Summary |
Through eleavorate & elegant close readings of poems by Rilke, Proust, Nietzsches and the major works of Rousseau, de Man concludes that all writing concerns itself with its own activity as language, & language, he says, is always unreliable, slippery, impossible...Literary narrative, because it must rely on language, tells the story of its own inability to tell a story.... De Man demonstrates, beautifully & convincingly, that language turns back on itself, that rhetoric is untrustworthy. -- Amazon.com |
| Analysis |
European literatures, ca1850-ca1930 Rhetoric Semiotic aspects Case studies |
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Prose in French Rousseau, Jean Jacques Style Semiotic aspects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nietsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Style
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Style.
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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Style.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Style.
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Style.
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Literary style.
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Figures of speech.
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French literature -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- History and criticism.
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Rhetoric -- Case studies.
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Semiotics and literature -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Allegories.
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| LC no. |
79064075 |
| ISBN |
0300023227 |
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0300028458 |
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