{"title":"The Displaced Predicament: Allegory, Irony, and Remystification","authors":"Joseph Albernaz","doi":"10.1353/srm.2022.0002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This contribution reorients what Paul de Man calls \"the human predicament\" in his influential essay \"The Rhetoric of Temporality.\" Colliding de Man's account of allegory and irony with paradigms articulated in Black Studies, it attempts to radicalize de Man's framework by questioning the implicit racial ontology in the \"predicament\" of self and language he outlines. Because de Man has proven so influential in Romantic Studies, I suggest, by way of a brief reading of Phillis Wheatley alongside Wordsworth, that this reorientation of de Man has implications for a much broader reorientation of Romanticism.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2022.0002","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This contribution reorients what Paul de Man calls "the human predicament" in his influential essay "The Rhetoric of Temporality." Colliding de Man's account of allegory and irony with paradigms articulated in Black Studies, it attempts to radicalize de Man's framework by questioning the implicit racial ontology in the "predicament" of self and language he outlines. Because de Man has proven so influential in Romantic Studies, I suggest, by way of a brief reading of Phillis Wheatley alongside Wordsworth, that this reorientation of de Man has implications for a much broader reorientation of Romanticism.
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Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.