Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 'The Unimaginable Touch of Time': The Public and Private in the Notebooks of Paul de Man. Martin McQuillan; Part I: Texts; Introduction; 1. The Drawings of Paul Valéry (1948); 2. Jacques Villon (1952); 3. Graduate Essay on Keats (1954); 4. Postdoctoral Essay on Symbolism (c.1960); 5. Introduction to Madame Bovary (1965); 6. Introduction to The Portable Rousseau (1973); 7. On Reading Rousseau (1977); 8. Translator's Introduction to "Rousseau and English Romanticism" (1978); 9. Rousseau and English Romanticism (1978)
10. Introduction to Studies in Romanticism (1979)11. Homage à Georges Poulet (1982); 12. A Letter from Paul de Man; 13. Reply to Raymond Geuss (1983); 14. Interview with Robert Moynihan (1984); Part II: Translations; Introduction; 15. Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry (1959); 16. Essay on the Origin of Language: Melody and Musical Imitation Are Being Considered (date of translation unknown); Part III: Teaching; Introduction; 17. Field of Comparative Literature: Analysis of Needs (1967); 18. The Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University: A Report (date unknown)
19. Comparative Literature 816a: Hegel and English Romanticism20. Comparative Literature 816a: Hegel and English Romanticism; 21. Comparative Literature 817a: Aesthetic Theory from Kant to Hegel; 22. Curriculum for Lit Z Proposal (1975); 23. Literature Z: Exercise II; 24. Rhetorical Readings; 25. Director's Report on Rhetorical Reading (1982); 26. Seminar on "Aesthetic Theory from Kant to Hegel". Yale University, Fall Semester, 1982; Part IV: Research; Introduction; 27. The Unimaginable Touch of Time: Proposed Table of Contents; 28. Modernism in Literature: Background and Essay Selection
29. Modernism in Literature: Revised Table of Contents30. The Portable Rousseau: Table of Contents; 31. The Portable Rousseau: Principle of Selection; 32. Outline for a Monograph on Nietzsche; 33. From Nietzsche to Rousseau; 34. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust; 35. Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ideology; 36. 11/3/82; Appendix; The Notebooks of Paul de Man 1963-83; Bibliography; Index
This anthology collects 36 texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art and literature, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature