Texts by Paul de Man, 1979

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
Contents:
Part I Rhetoric
1. Semiology and Rhetoric:3-19.
2. Tropes (Rilke):20-56.
3. Reading (Proust):57-78.
4. Genesis and Genealogy (Nietzsche):79-102.
5. Rhetoric of Tropes (Nietzsche):103-118.
6. Rhetoric of Persuasion (Nietzsche):119-131.
Part II Rousseau
7. Metaphor (Second Discourse):135-159.
8. Self (Pygmalion):160-187.
9. Allegory (Julie):188-220.
10. Allegory of Reading (Profession de foi):221-245.
11. Promises (Social Contract):246-277.
12. Excuses (Confessions):278-301.
"Allegory (Julie)." In Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, pp. 188-220. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
"Autobiography as De-Facement." MLN (December 1979), 94(5):919-930.
Reprinted in Rhetoric of Romanticism (1984) , pp. 67-81.

"Introduction" [to special issue entitled "The Rhetoric of Romanticism"] Studies in Romanticism (Winter 1979), 18(4):495-499.

"Political Allegory in Rousseau." In Sheldon Sacks, ed., On Metaphor, pp. 11-28. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
See "Political Allegory in Rousseau" (1978).

"Preface." In Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, pp. ix-xi. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

"La retorica della temporalita." Calibano (1979), 3:169-205.
Translated into Italian by Paola Ludovici of "The Rhetoric of Temporality" (1969).

"The Return to Philology." TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (December 10, 1982), 4158:1355-1356.
Contribution to "Professing Literature: A Symposium on the Study of English."
Reprinted in The Resistance to Theory (1986), pp. 21-26.

"Self (Pygmalion)." In Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, pp. 160-187. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

"Semiology and Rhetoric." In Josué V. Harari, ed., Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism, pp. 121-140. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979.
See "Semiology and Rhetoric" (1973) and "Semiology and Rhetoric" in Allegories of Reading (1979), pp. 3-19.

"Shelley Disfigured." In Harold Bloom, et al., Deconstruction and Criticism, pp. 59-73. New York: Seabury Press, A Continuum Book, 1979.
Reprinted in Rhetoric of Romanticism (1984), pp. 93-123.