Allegories of Reading

Man, P. d. (1979). Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. Yale University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1979

Link

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philosophy

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• Inversion
  • … structure**: Chiasmus — inverted parallelism ("ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country") — appears across classical rhetoric and biblical language. De Man 1979 Allegories of Reading uses inversion as a deconstructive reading strategy, reading texts against their apparent grain.

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