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Belgian literary theorist (1919–1983)

Also known as: Paul Adolph Michel de Man, Поль де Ман, بول دي مان, 폴 드 만, ポール・ド・マン, 保羅·德曼

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Known works

  • Allegories of reading (1979)
  • The resistance to theory (1986)
  • Critical writings, 1953-1978 (1989)
  • The rhetoric of romanticism
  • Wartime journalism, 1939-1943 (1988)