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Formalism and its Malcontents: Benjamin and de Man on the Function of Allegory
- New Literary History
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 35, Number 4, Autumn 2004
- pp. 663-683
- 10.1353/nlh.2005.0004
- Article
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Abstract
Responding to recent critical discussions concerning a new or resurgent formalism, the essay questions the very distinction between formalism and historicism by exploring the widely divergent ways that Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man negotiate the dialectical problem of immanent critique in their respective meditations on allegory.
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