Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism

Contents......Page 13 1. Criticism and Crisis......Page 17 2. Form and Intent in the American New Criticism......Page 34 3. Ludwig Binswanger and the Sublimation of Self......Page 50 4. Georg Lukacs's Theory of the Novel......Page 65 5. Impersonality in the Criticism of Maurice Blanchot......Page 74 6. Literary Self as Origin: The Work of George Poulet......Page 93 7. The Rhetoric of Blindness: Jacques Derrida's Reading of Rousseau......Page 116 8. Literary History and Literary Modernity......Page 156 9. Lyric and Modernity......Page 180 Index......Page 201