This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Prous

Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.

Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their products, but an important part of such work considers the end-user, the reader. It asks such qu

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