This thesis works to outline some of the contemporary responses to the work and person of Paul de Man. These responses are particularly viewed in light of the recent discovery of de Man's World War II journalist writings. Through this critical survey, the thesis approaches a reading of deconstruction through the debate surrounding the authority of one of the theory's principal practitioners. / The thesis is organized into three chapters, with each analyzing an important term in the debate on de Man. The first chapter, "Name", considers the linguistic positing of authorial identity. The second, "Autobiography", reads the rhetorical transformation from an author's life to text. "Responsibility", the third chapter, outlines the ethical aspect to de Man's critical theory as it occurs through his definition of allegory.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.61341 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Pyper, Andrew, 1968- |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of English.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001318575, proquestno: AAIMM80369, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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