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The Romantic Predicament (The Frontiers of Theory)
The Romantic Predicament - The Frontiers of Theory Author:Paul de Man The first collection of Paul de Man's essays to follow the posthumous Aesthetic Ideology, this anthology reproduces de Man's critical engagement with Stéphane Mallarmé, Stefan George, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jacques Derrida, John Keats, and the Symbolists. Crucial to any analysis of Romantic and Post-Romantic poetry, these essays demonstr... more »ate the impressive range of de Man's influences and thought. Each piece acts as a foil to other texts within the author's ouevre. A remarkable concentration of de Man's work on the ideology of Romanticism, The Romantic Predicament identifies for the first time the historical problem of the complexity of thought and the difficulty of poetic consciousness, demonstrated vividly through the extreme linguistics of de Man's chosen poets.« less