Error in Paul de Man

Corngold, Stanley

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“…81 Similarly, '[t]he term "error" has for de Man a furious conceptual energy', Stanley Corngold comments, noting his enthusiasm in Blindness and Insight for 'the part truth of error'. 82 Of course, it is easier to appreciate the other fellow's wrongness. But in his reading of 'wrong poetry', Keston Sutherland reminds us of Adorno's injunction against the wish to be right above all:…”

Section: Retrospect: After Midrash and Theorymentioning

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Faith in Reading: Revisiting the Midrash–Theory Connection

Freer¹

2016

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In the 1980s there was a brief but intense period of interest among literary critics and theorists in Classical Rabbinic interpretation, and, in particular, the genre of commentary known as Midrash. Interest concentrated around the apparent similarities between Midrash and the commentaries and criticism of Derrida, Lacan, Freud, Barthes and others. This essay examines this connection between Midrash and theory in light of the persistent charge from Foucault and others that all hermeneutics is essentially theological. It proceeds by drawing out the aims and frustrations of the literary critics and Jewish scholars involved, and considers in what ways the questions which arose in these years might be pertinent for contemporary literary criticism, theory and institutional practice.

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Faith in Reading: Revisiting the Midrash–Theory Connection

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2016

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“…It is the privilege of literature to shake any axiom. 8 This is a wider conceptual range of 'literature' than the one we are used to. 'Literature' in this sense seems to be placed in an area where it is not made the target of that same distrust of all totalizing reading which is elsewhere the principle of rhetorical reading.…”

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Paul de Man's Reading of Nietzsche

Egebak

1994

Orbis Litterarum

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This is an investigation into the authority of Paul de Man as a literary scholar. Therefore, it is attempted to give a critical account of major points in his ‘deconstructive’reading technique, followed, as an example, by a discussion of his reading of Nietzsche's Über Wahrheit und Lüge, as this is considered a basic text for‘deconstructive’readings. The argument is that de Man's concept of metaphor (and allegory) is founded on a misreading, even on a false translation of Nietzsche. My alternative (thematic) reading underlines that Nietzsche was certainly engaged in the cultural politics of his time, whereas de Man has stressed a comprehensive concept of textuality. This concept is, according to the reasoning in the present article, erroneously referred to Nietzsche. Furthermore, it seems to imply some contradictions. De Man may possibly be considered as a ‘closet metaphysician’in spite of declarations.

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Norris¹

2018

A Companion to Literary Theory

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Faith in Reading: Revisiting the Midrash–Theory Connection

Faith in Reading: Revisiting the Midrash–Theory Connection

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