Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
by:
Paul De Man (author)
Wlad Godzich (author)
Paul De Man, Wlad Godzich,Paperback - REV, Edition: 2,Series: Theory and History of Literature Series 7, English-language edition,Pub by University of Minnesota Press
Paul De Man, Wlad Godzich,Paperback - REV, Edition: 2,Series: Theory and History of Literature Series 7, English-language edition,Pub by University of Minnesota Press
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780816611355 (0816611351)
ASIN: 816611351
Publish date: October 3rd 1983
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
Series: Theory and History of Literature (#7)
"Blindness" serves as Paul de Man's trope for cognition. Our acts of interpretation necessarily result in spatialization, the formation of "gaps," as we literally only see certain parts of the text. The blindness enables our insight, for if all were foregrounded, nothing would be foregrounded. The o...