 | Frank Lentricchia - 1980 - 406 oldal
...essentially modern."69 Modernity, life as will to power, and the literary are conflated "as a form of desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope...present, a point of origin that marks a new departure." Yet, as de Man shrewdly notes in a statement that will mean much to Harold Bloom, Nietzsche's "shrill... | |
 | Stephen W. Melville - 1986 - 221 oldal
...From this de Man goes on to define "the radical impulse that stands behind all genuine modernity" as "a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the...present, a point of origin that marks a new departure" (Blindness, pp. 147-48). The task becomes that of showing the inevitable temporal complications to... | |
 | Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 oldal
...texts clearly demonstrate what Paul de Man has called the "deliberate forgetting" of the modern, its "desire to wipe out whatever came earlier in the hope...last a point that could be called a true present." But the inspiration of Yoknapatawpha County is the refusal to forget anything. Its characters and its... | |
 | Jonathan Crary - 1992 - 190 oldal
...Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (New York, 1971), pp. 142-165: "Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe...origin reaches the full power of the idea of modernity. . . . The human figures that epitomize modernity are defined by experiences such as childhood or convalescence,... | |
 | Carlos J. Alonso - 1990 - 234 oldal
...Jakobson's essay "Shifters, Verbal Categories and the Russian Verb" in Selected Writings, 11, pp. 130-47. 22 "Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe...point that could be called a true present, a point or origin that marks a new departure. This combined interplay of deliberate forgetting with an action... | |
 | Lee Patterson - 1991 - 508 oldal
...modernity consists in the paradoxical discovery of the impossibility of being modern. On the one hand, "modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe...present, a point of origin that marks a new departure." But when writers begin to "assert their own modernity, they are bound to discover their dependence... | |
 | Rey Chow - 230 oldal
...by feelings not only of rejuvenation, but more so, of renunciation. "Modernity," writes Paul de Man, "exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever...present, a point of origin that marks a new departure." A paradox arises here: while it is by crushing, leveling, or neutralizing the many figures of femininity... | |
 | Dana Brand - 1991 - 268 oldal
...rapidly as America did in the first half of the nineteenth century. And if, as Paul de Man has written, modernity "exists in the form of a desire to wipe...called a true present, a point of origin that marks a true departure" (i48), then few cultures in history have been more self-consciously "modern" than the... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - 1992 - 200 oldal
...previous experience," captures, he argues, "the authentic spirit of modernity." "Modernity," he explains, "exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever...a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."8 Reading de Man, I have at the end of my academic career been forced to look rather more... | |
 | Richard Terdiman - 1993 - 416 oldal
...of this chapter sought to depict. Paul de Man framed the stakes in the "modernism" dispute clearly: "Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe...present, a point of origin that marks a new departure" ("Literary Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist... | |
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at last a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. 
