Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780816611348 (0816611343)
Publish date: May 1st 1983
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Pages no: 308
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...