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(Nietzsche), the last of three chapters on Nietzsche in Allegories of Reading — in particular the section of the chapter which considers how the passage from a cognitive to a performative rhetoric is
Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005
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He chooses as his object de Man's reading of Proust in Allegories of Reading — a shrewd choice, for it is one of de Man's earliest efforts at "rhetorical reading," and its heavy reliance on a Jakobsonian opposition between metaphor and metonymy offers Guillory opportunities.
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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In any event, the point is not to dwell on the mechanics and the details of this "de-constructive rhetoricity" — we can read all about it in Allegories of Reading and elsewhere — but rather to insist that already here, at the very pivot of de Man's "shift" to rhetoric and rhetorical terms, the move to rhetoric is already a move past rhetoric, to an awareness that tropological textual models will also not be able to account for what actually happens, what actually occurs, in and as the texts of Hölderlin and of
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2 De Man also carries out a reading of the passage in Allegories of
Notes on 'Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.' 2005
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"Allegories", from Petrarch's "Triumphs", is enough in itself to keep the mind engrossed with fanciful musings for an hour.
The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889
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Paris Art "Jean-Charles Delafosse and Allegories" shows 13 watercolors of various allegories by the 18th-century French architect and painter.
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Allegories are seldom action-packed and flashy, but rather provide the opportunity for instruction on a particular principle.
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They are known together as The Hieroglyphs (or Allegories) of Death or the Last Days (Los Ieroglificos de nuestras postrimerias o Los muertos)
Two Allegories 2009
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Allegories and analogies abound, from the treatment of the native peoples of the Americas and Australia to the exploitation of the Middle East for oil.
GeekGasm: A Look at the Latest Avatar Trailer in IMAX 3D! A Difference Than Any 3D Predecessor 2009
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The difference between Parables and Allegories is that the later is merely a teaching to be accepted while the former takes one step further in challenging the hearer to make a decision.
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