De Man Paul. The Paul de Man Notebooks

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0748641041; ISBN13: 978-0748641048.This anthology collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature. These texts offer a fascinating insight into the work of one of the twentieth century's most important literary theorists. The volume engages with Paul de Man's institutional life, gathering together pedagogical and critical material to investigate his profound influence on the American academy and theory today. It also contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and untranslated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career. As a new collection of primary sources this volume further stimulates the growing reappraisal of de Man's work.Martin McQuillan. Introduction. 'The Unimaginable Touch of Time': The Public and Private in the Notebooks of Paul de ManTextsMartin McQuillan. IntroductionThe Drawings of Paul Valery (1948) (Translated from the French by Richard Howard)
Jacques Villon (1952) (Translated from the Swedish by Jarkko Toikkanen and Kati Toikkanen)
Graduate Essay on Keats (1954)
Postdoctoral Essay on Symbolism (c. 1960)
Introduction to Madame Bovary (1965)
Introduction to The Portable Rousseau (1973)
On Reading Rousseau (1977)
Patience Moll. Translator's Introduction to "Rousseau and English Romanticism" (1978)
Rousseau and English Romanticism (1978) (Translated from the French by Patience Moll)
Introduction to Studies in Romanticism (1979)
Hommage a Georges Poulet (1982)
A Letter from Paul de Man (1982)
Reply to Raymond Geuss (1983)
Interview with Robert Moynihan (1984)TranslationsMartin McQuillan. IntroductionHölderlin and the Essence of Poetry (1959): Paul de Mans translation of Martin Heidegger
Essay on the Origin of Language: Melody and Musical Imitation Arc Being Considered: Paul and Patricia de Man's translation of Jean-Jacques RousseauTeachingMartin McQuillan. IntroductionField of Comparative Literature: Analysis of Needs (1967)
The Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University: A Report
Comparative Literature 816a: Hegel and English Romanticism (De Man/Hartman)
Comparative Literature 816a: Hegel and English Romanticism (De Man/Hartman)
Comparative Literature 817a: Aesthetic Theory from Kant to Hegel (De Man)
Curriculum for Lit Z Proposal (1975)
Literature Z: Exercise II
Rhetorical Readings
Director's Report on Rhetorical Reading (1982)
Seminar on "Aesthetic Theory from Kant to Hegel". Fall Semester (1982): Compiled from the lecture notes of Roger Blood, Cathy Caruth, and Suzanne RoosResearchMartin McQuillan. IntroductionThe Unimaginable Touch of Time: Proposed Table of Contents
Modernism in Literature: Background and Essay Selection
Modernism in Literature: Revised Table of Contents
The Portable Rousseau: Table of Contents
The Portable Rousseau: Principle of Selection
Outline for a Monograph on Nietzsche
From Nietzsche to Rousseau
Allegories of Reading: Figurai Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ideology
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Bibliography, compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan and Martin McQuillan