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Quotation by Paul Deman
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"Literary History and Literary Modernity" Blindness and Insight (1971, revised 1983)"Literary History and Literary Modernity""Literary History and Literary Modernity" repr. in Blindness and Insight (1971, revised 1983)"Semiology And Rhetoric" Allegories of Reading (1979)"Semiology and Rhetoric" Allegories Of ReadingRelated Subjects
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The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
Paul Deman (1919–1983), Belgian-born U.S. literary critic. Lecture, September 1969. "Literary History and Literary Modernity," Blindness and Insight (1971, revised 1983).
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