Student work Series 1. circa 1952-circa 1960
Series Scope and Content Summary
Student materials circa 1952-1955
"The concept of form in some associationist writers: Alexander Gerard, Archibald Alison, and Abraham Tucker," for Professor Walter Jackson Bate 1953 May
"Taine and Baudelaire," for Professor W.M. Frohock 1953 August
"Achill by Friedrich Hölderlin," for Professor Hugo
"Bachelard and Burke," for Professor Harry Levin 1954 January
Essay on Keats 1954
First draft 1954
Final version 1954
"Yeats and the German romantic tradition"
"W.B. Yeats and the French symbolists"
Essay on Stefan George and Stephan Mallarmé 1952 December
Essay on Stefan George and Friedrich Hölderlin
"Mallarmé's Igitur, an exegesis," 1953
"Criticism of Faust in the George-Circle (George-Gundolf Kommerell)"
"Landscape in Wordsworth's sonnets"
"Wordsworth and Arnold"
"The fall of Adam and Eve"
Notes on Yeats, "National Dublin Library"
List of Harvard Junior Fellows for 1954-1955 circa 1954
Dissertation materials
Ph.D. Dissertation, "Mallarmé, Yeats, and the post-romantic predicament" 1960
"Introduction to the post-romantic predicament"
Mallarmé
W.B. Yeats
Material on Yeats
"W. B. Yeats"
First draft
Second draft
Third draft
Final version
Miscellaneous notes
Bibliography for Yeats
"Yeats II, preparation for Faust article," notebook
Material on Mallarmé
French version
First draft
Second draft
Final version
English version
First draft
Second draft
Miscellaneous notes
Publisher correspondence
Bibliography
Material on Stefan George
"Part III: Stefan George"
Miscellaneous notes
"Stefan George final reading," notebook
Miscellaneous materials
Description of dissertation
Introduction to unidentified text
Paper on Symbolism with cover letter to Harry Levin
Notes on Yeats and Mallarmé
Notes on graduate research
Early writings Series 2. 1948-1982
Series Scope and Content Summary
Uncollected articles 1948-1966
The Drawings of Paul Valéry," French translation by Richard Howard
"Montaigne et la transcendence," offprint
"La Critique thématique devant le thème de Faust"
"What is modern," review of Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson, Jr., eds., The modern tradition: Backgrounds of modern literature
"The notebooks of Albert Camus"
"Mme. de Staël and Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
First draft
English translation with revisions
"The literature of nihilism"
"The German tradition"
Miscellaneous notes
"Modern poetics: French and German"
"Continental 20th century poetics"
First draft
Final version
Miscellaneous notes
Bibliography
Publisher correspondence
Critical writings, 1953-1978
Publisher correspondence
Collected writings 1966-1982
Blindness and insight, 2nd ed.
"The dead-end of formalist criticism" ("Impasse de la critique formaliste")
"Impersonality in the criticism of Maurice Blanchot"
"Interpretation et oubli dans la critique de Maurice Blanchot"
First draft
Second draft
"La Circularité de l'interpretation dans l'oeuvre critique de Maurice Blanchot"
Final version
Offprint
Miscellaneous notes
"Form and intent in the American new criticism"
First draft titled "Rhétorique des formes et des mythes dans la critique amèricaine"
Final version, titled "New criticism et nouvelle critique"
Miscellaneous notes
"Georg Lukác's Theory of the novel"
First draft
Final version
Miscellaneous notes
Spanish translation
"Criticism and crisis"
Miscellaneous notes
Offprint, titled "The Crisis of Contemporary Criticism"
"Ludwig Binswager and the sublimation of self," "Ludwig Binswager et le moi poétique"
"The literary self as origin: the work of Georges Poulet"
French version titled "Verité et méthod dans l'oeuvre de Georges Poulet"
First draft
Final version
English version
"The rhetoric of temporality"
"Allégorie et symbole dans le pré-romantisme"
Draft
Offprint
"II: Irony"
Miscellaneous notes
"Lyric and Modernity," offprint
"The rhetoric of blindness and insight"
Draft
"Jacques Derrida, De la grammatologie," offprint
"Rhétorique de la cécité: Derrida lecteur de Rousseau," offprint
"On Reading Rousseau," offprint
"Literature and language: a commentary"
Draft
Offprint
"Review of Harold Bloom's The anxiety of influence"
Draft
Offprint
Composite manuscript
"Table of Contents"
"Introduction: Caution! Reader at work!" by Wlad Godzich
"The rhetoric of temporality"
"Chapter 10: The rhetoric of temporality"
"Heidegger's exegeses of Hölderlin," translated by Wlad Godzich
"Chapter 12: Heidegger's exegeses of Höderlin"
Review of Harold Bloom's Anxiety of influence
"Appendix A: review of Harold Bloom's Anxiety of influence"
"Appendix B: Literature and language: a commentary"
"Foreword"
Index to Blindness and insight
Publisher correspondence
Rhetoric of romanticism
"Intentional structure of the romantic image," "Structure intentionnelle de l'Image romantique," offprint
"Symbolic landscape in Wordsworth and Yeats"
"Wordsworth and Hölderlin"
First draft
Final version
English version, translation by Timothy Bahti
German version, translation by Hans-Jost Frey
Offprints
"Wordsworth and the Victorians"
First draft
Second draft
Final version, titled "Wordsworth"
Correspondence
"The image of Rousseau in the poetry of Hölderlin"
Miscellaneous notes
Offprints
Unpublished material circa 1948-1972
Unpublished work undated
"The double aspect of symbolism" undated
First draft
Second draft
Editor's final version
"Hölderlin and the romantic tradition" undated
Draft
Project description
"Heaven and earth in Wordsworth and Hölderlin" undated
First draft
Final version
"Roland Barthes and the limits of structuralism" undated
First draft
Final version
"The unimaginable touch of time: studies in European romanticism" undated
"The contemporary criticism of romanticism"
"Rousseau and the transcendence of self"
"Rousseau and Madame de Staël"
"Image of Rousseau in poetry of Hölderlin"
"Patterns of temporality in Hölderlin's 'Wie wenn am Feiertage'"
"Wordsworth and Hölderlin"
"Allegory and irony in Baudelaire"
"Rhetoric of Temporality: Romantic Allegory"
"Report on W. Ruland's America as metaphor" undated
"The present state of comp. lit. in the U.S." undated
"Contemporary criticism in the light of Madame Bovary" undated
Colloquium on Literary Criticism held at Yale University, discussion highlights 1965 March 25-27
Publisher correspondence undated
Miscellaneous notes undated
On authors
Hölderlin
Hugo
Keats and Hölderlin
Wordsworth and Rousseau
On subjects
French poetry
German literary studies
Literary criticism
Phenomenological criticism
Unidentified reading notes
Later writings Series 3. circa 1972-1983
Series Scope and Content Summary
Allegories of reading
"Reading (Proust)"
"Proust et l'allégorie de la lecture"
Footnotes
"Genesis and genealogy (Nietzsche)"
First draft
Second draft
Third draft
Final version
"Metaphor ( Second discourse)," "Theory of Metaphor in Rousseau's Second discourse"
First draft
Second draft
Final version
Miscellaneous notes
Offprint
Correspondence
"Semiology and rhetoric"
Draft
Outline
Notes
"Rhetoric of persuasion (Nietzsche)"
"Action and identity in Nietzsche"
First draft
Final version
"Nietzsche's principle of non-identity"
Offprint
Correspondence
"Allegory of Reading ( Profession de foi)"
Draft
"'The timid god' on Rousseau's Profession de foi du Vicaire Savoyard," offprint
"Political Allegory in Rousseau," Chapter 11: "Promises ( Social Contract)"
"Excuses ( Confessions)"
"Chapter VII: the purloined ribbon, autobiography as text"
Outline
Notes
Publisher correspondence
Rhetoric of romanticism
"Shelley disfigured"
"The disfiguration of romanticism"
"Romanticism disfigured"
Miscellaneous notes
Footnotes
Correspondence
"Autobiography as de-facement"
Miscellaneous notes
Final version
Offprint
"Anthropomorphism and trope in the lyric"
First draft, titled "Epistemology and ideology of tropes/anthropomorphism and anamorphosis"
Second draft
Final version
Miscellaneous notes
"Aesthetic formalization: Kleist's #252;ber das Marionettentheater"
First draft
Second draft
Final version
Miscellaneous notes
Introduction
Publisher correspondence
The resistance to theory
"The resistance to theory"
"Literary theory, aims and methods"
First draft
Final version
Offprint
Correspondence
"Hypogram and inscription"
First draft
Second draft
Final version
"Reading and history"
First draft
Second draft
Final version
Miscellaneous notes
Correspondence
"The return to philology," "Professing literature"
First draft
Second draft
Final version
"Dialogue and dialogism"
First draft
Final version
Offprint
Publication agreement and correspondence
"Resistance to Literary Theory," lecture delivered at Oregon State University, audio recording 1981
Aesthetic ideology
"The epistemology of metaphor"
First draft
Final version
Offprints, German translation by Werner Hamacher
Correspondence
"Pascal's allegory of persuasion"
Draft
Miscellaneous notes
Publication agreement
Correspondence
"Sign and symbol in Hegel's Aesthetics"
First draft
Final version
German translation with receipt of 1982 honorarium for lecture at Zürich 1982 May 3
Raymond Geuss on "Sign and symbol in Hegel's Aesthetics"
Review of manuscript
Correspondence
Published reply 1981
"Hegel on the sublime"
First draft
Second draft
Final version
Correspondence
Raymond Geuss' "Comment on Paul de Man's 'Hegel on the sublime'"
"Reply to Raymond Geuss"
Draft
Final version
"Phenomenality and materiality in Kant"
Draft
Miscellaneous notes
Correspondence
Rodolphe Gasché's "Response to Paul de Man, 'Phenomenality and materiality in Kant'"
"Kant's materialism"
First draft
Second draft
Final version
"Concept of Irony"
"Ironies of Allegory," miscellaneous notes
Outline
"Kant & Schiller," outline and notes
Table of contents for Aesthetics, rhetoric, ideology; The resistance to theory; Blindness and insight; and Allegories of reading
Other publications
"Forward." From Carol Jacobs's The dissimulating harmony 1978
"Georges Poulet." From Modern language notes 1982
"A reply to Stanley Corngold." From Critical inquiry 1982
Draft
Final version
Correspondence
"Lyrical Voice in Contemporary Theory"
Draft
Final version
"Interview with Paul de Man," offprint
Romanticism and contemporary criticism
"'A waking dream': The symbolic alternative to allegory," by Murray Krieger, with de Man's marginalia
"Murray Krieger: a commentary," response to Krieger's essay
"To keep the road open: reflection on a theme of Lionel Trilling," by Frank Kermode
"Blocking the road," response to Kermode
First draft
Final version, titled "Clearing the Road"
Unpublished material
Individual works
Rousseau et le romantisme anglais 1978 May 28
Textual Allegories
Table of contents for "Textual Allegories"
"II. The Self (Narcissus and Pygmalion)," typescript
Translation of Derrida's "Survivre"
Miscellaneous notes
On authors
Baudelaire
Benjamin
Derrida and Freud
Genette, Figures III
Nietzsche
Pascal
Proust
Riffaterre
Rousseau
General
Julie
Pygmalion
Nouvelle Héloise
Schlegel
On subjects
Critical methodology
Literary theory and studies
Phenomenological criticism and semiotics
New York Armory Show of 1913
Unidentified
Editorial work Series 4. 1965-1983
Published monographs 1965-1983
Oeuvres complètes de Rainer Maria Rilke
Introduction
Drafts
Footnotes
Translations of Rilke into French by translators other than de Man
"Rainer Maria Rilke, les Elégies de Duino (Duinser Elegien)"
Publisher correspondence
Madame Bovary
Introduction
"Preface to Madame Bovary"
Fragments and notes
"A note on translation"
Publisher correspondence
The selected poetry of Keats
First draft
Final version
Unpublished monographs 1970-1978
Modernism anthology
"Modernism in literature"
First draft
Final version
"References"
"Table of Contents"
Notes
Publisher correspondence
Viking Portable Rousseau
Front matter, manuscript
Front matter, edited typescripts
"Introduction to the Viking Portable Rousseau," manuscript
"Introduction to the Viking Portable Rousseau, transcript by E.S. Burt"
"Rousseau," edited typescript
"Rousseau," final typescript
"Essay on the Origin of Language," manuscript
"Essay on the Origin of Language," edited copies
"Pygmalion," edited typescripts
Preface to Julie or La Nouvelle Heloise, edited typescripts
Preface to Julie or La Nouvelle Heloise, edited copies
Julie or La Nouvelle Heloise, manuscript
Julie or La Nouvelle Heloise, edited typescripts and copies
Julie or La Nouvelle Heloise, complete edited draft
"On Public Happiness," copy
"Four Letters to Monsieur de Malesherbes," edited typescripts and copies
"First Outline for the Confessions," edited typescripts and copies
"Allegory," copy
Footnotes
Publishers correspondence 1972-1986
Teaching files Series 5. 1957-1983
European romanticism III (Zurich) 1963-1964
Übungen, Valèry/Rilke/W. Stevens (Zurich) 1964
Rilke and George (Zurich); Hölderlin (Cornell). 1964-1965
Eighteenth-century novel, Rousseau, Mme. de-Stael (Zurich) 1965
Eighteenth-century novel (Zurich) 1965-1966
Eighteenth-century novel, Marivaux, Sterne, Wieland (Zurich) 1965-1966
European romanticism, Keats and Kleist (Zurich) 1965-1966
Narcissus (Geneva); Keats and Kleist II (Zurich) 1965-1966
Twentieth-century novel (Zurich) 1966
Gide and James II (Zurich) 1966
Gide and James III (Zurich) 1966
Nouvelle Héloïse, Die Wahlverwandtshaft (Zurich) 1966
Hawthorne and James II (Zurich); James and Proust I (Zurich) 1967-1968
Baudelaire (Cornell); Untitled notebook (Zurich) 1967-1968
Irony II (Zurich) 1967-1968
Untitled notebook (Zurich); Rilke and Shelley (Zurich) 1967-1968
James and Proust (Zurich) 1968
Derrida, etc. (Zurich) 1968-1969
Modernity I (Zurich) 1968-1969
Narcissus, Coleridge, Hazlit, Schlegel; Modernity I (Zurich); Proust (Zurich) 1968-1969
Rousseau and Nietzsche (Johns Hopkins); Eigenart der literarischen (Zurich) 1969-1971
Rousseau (Yale); Proust (Yale) 1971-1972
Methodology (Zurich) circa 1973-1974
Nietzsche (Zurich); Eighteenth-century novel (Yale) 1973-1974
Rousseau (Berlin) circa 1973-1974
Theories of language in 18th century (Yale) 1975
Rhetorical readings (Yale); Irony (Yale) 1975-1976
Gide (Yale) 1975
Epistemology of metaphor (Yale) 1977
Lit Z (Yale) 1977
Rhetoric of romanticism (Konstanz) 1978
Lyric: Baudelaire, Yeats, Rilke (Constanz) 1978
Autobiography (Yale) 1978
Baudelaire and Rimbaud (Zurich) 1978
Baudelaire/Rilke/Yeats, Theory of Rhetorique (Chicago) 1979
Descartes and Pascal (Yale) 1979
Lit 130 b (Lit Z), with J. Hillis Miller (Yale); Hegel (Yale) 1979-1980
Rhetorical readings (Yale); Kleist (Irvine) 1979
Hegel and English romanticism, with Hartman (Yale) 1980
NEH Seminar 1981
School of Criticism seminar; Kant and Schiller (Schlegel) (Yale) 1982
Theory of rhetoric in the 18th and 20th centuries (Yale) 1983
Undated notebooks
Nouvelle Héloïse
Keats, Mme. Bovary
List of "cahiers"
Course materials 1957-1981
Harvard materials
CL 160, "The Symbolist Movement" 1957-1958 Fall
CL 159 1957-1958 Spring
CL 162 1958-1959 Spring
CL 160 1959-1960 Fall
Lectures on Yeats
"Yeats on measurement"
"Yeats and myth"
"Yeats on love"
"Yeats and Ireland"
"Yeats and history"
Miscellaneous notes
Committee on Degrees in History and Literature: examination for the degree of A.B., Part I 1960
CL 800a, "Autobiography," class list
Rousseau and Nietzsche, teaching notes circa 1971-1972
Lit 130 (Yale University), lecture
Lit 130 (Yale University), lecture on Proust circa 1980-1981
"Lit Z," drafts of proposal to create Yale undergraduate literature course
Humanities 6, course materials
"Texts for Chicago"
Correspondence Series 6. 1955-1984
Series Scope and Content Summary
Index to significant correspondents in Series 6
1956-1957
1958-1966
1970
1971
1972 January - October
1972 November
1972 December
1973 January - February
1973 March - April
1974
1975 January - July
1975 August - December
1976
1977
1978 January - March
1978 April - Jun
1978 July - September
1979 January - February
1979 March - April
1979 May - August
1979 September - October
1979 November - December
1980 January
1980 February - March
1980 April
1980 May - July
1980 August - October
1980 November
1981 January - March
1981 April - May
1981 June
1981 July - September
1981 October - November
1981 December
1982 January
1982 February - June
1982 July - August
1982 November
1982 December
1983 April - June
1983 July - December
1984
1987
Drafts of De Man's outgoing correspondence undated
Family correspondence 1976-1983
Topical files Series 7. circa 1950-1983
Series Scope and Content Summary
Professional material
Official appointment to Yale University
Guggenheim Fellowship materials
Concilium on International and Area Studies, Faculty Research Grant materials
American Academy of Arts and Letters, certificate
Job descriptions for possible openings at UCI 1975 June
Official leave of absence memo circa 1981-1982
Syracuse project
Publisher materials
Reviews of manuscripts
Vance, C. The extravagant shepherd
Wheelock, Carter. The mythmaker
Ziolkowski, Theodor. Disenchanted images
Unidentified work
Modern Language Association publications
Biographical materials
Curriculum vitae 1973-circa 1978
Photographs
Portrait circa 1950
With family members circa 1950-1983
List of potential homes
Texts by other authors
Barthes, Roland
De Campos, Haroldo
Derrida, Jacques
Domingo, Willis
Grötzer, Peter
Hölderlin, Friedrich
Lautréamont, Comte de
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Rosenberg, Harold
Schlegel, Friedrich
Ephemera
Prüfungsplan 1968
Collage upon leaving Cornell circa 1970
Chope Romande
Fourth International Congress on the Enlightenment," program 1975
Concept of irony, flyer 1977
Starobinski visit to Yale, schedule 1978
Yale French Department newsletter 1981
Deconstruction and its alternatives, with De Man's lecture "Kant on the Sublime," program 1983
Whitney Humanities Center, brochure circa 1983-1984
Offprints 1953-1970