Guillory

Guillory is certainly right at least to this extent: anyone attempting to normalize de Man's use of tropological terms will be in for many a sleepless night.

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

Guillory is right to argue, against the pseudo-historicists and neo-pragmatists, that aesthetic judgment cannot be evaded; just as little, however, can one evade the rhetorical critique that locates in the radical singularity of aesthetic judgment the impossible but necessary condition of suspense between literal and figural meaning that de Man saw as the predicament of reading.

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

Capital, I would spend more than a passing sentence wondering whether Guillory is justified in ascribing the popularity of Gray's poetry to an

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

Guillory is absolutely right to discern a symptom at work here, but his analysis exactly repeats the symptom's own grammar and terms.

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

Guillory is a powerful writer at all times — allowing oneself to be borne up and along by his rolling, organ-toned prose is one of the regular pleasures of reading him — and in chapter four his writing, while losing none of its eloquence, achieves a new level of intensity and aggressivity.

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

This imperative leaves visible scars in Guillory's fine-grained analyses.

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

Redfield argues that Guillory is right to claim that de Man's performance as a teacher and critic is inseparable from the professionalization of reading in the modern university, but that he is wrong to claim that de Man's text fails to reflect on this aspect of its own production.

Article Abstracts 2005

Chastized by critics for his liberties with the language, he nonetheless personifies style "at the vanishing point of grammar's abrogation," the mastery so complete that he can even "use bad grammar deliberately" (Guillory 517; Strunk and White qtd. in Guillory 517).

Like 1999

Guillory is short and dapper, wears stylish black-rimmed eyeglasses and has a penchant for three-piece suits and silk ties.

The Independent Weekly 2009

Guillory is short and dapper, wears stylish black-rimmed eyeglasses and has a penchant for three-piece suits and silk ties.

The Independent Weekly 2009