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In Rousseau’s book, La Nouvelle Héloïse, de Man identifies how important the presence of allegorical elements were to the shaping of the novel’s diction. The example of Rousseau shows that allegory has been a constant element in both pre- and Romantic literature. The importance de Man attributed to allegory resides in its temporal dimension, a dimension that is effectively neutralized by the organic unity apparently conveyed by symbols. The ‘prevalence of allegory’, de Man writes, ‘always corresponds to the unveiling of an authentically temporal destiny.
Here, de Man is interested in the modern opposition between formalism and the ‘authority of reference’ (de Man, 1979, 5), an opposition which in ‘opposing intrinsic to extrinsic criticism stands under the aegis of an Interpretation and Overinterpretation 29 inside/outside metaphor that … [needs to be] seriously questioned’ (1979, 5). To demonstrate the existence of this opposition, de Man opposes rhetoric to grammar following Burke and C. S. Peirce, whom he names as significant intellectual precursors.
But first, let us turn to some of the main themes of de Man’s work in order to provide a context for the debate. De Man and deconstruction Paul de Man is frequently credited with the role of translating Derrida’s deconstruction of metaphysics into the mainstream of American literary criticism. The essays collected in Blindness and Insight exemplify the emergence of a Derridean vocabulary in his work, but many of their main themes predate the consolidation of Derrida’s thought. In his earlier collection, Allegories of Reading, published in 1979, the distinctiveness of de Man’s approach to Derridean deconstruction emerges.