De Man, Paul

LC control no.	n 79060229
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	De Man, Paul *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Man, Paul de DeMan, Paul
Birth date	1919-12-06
Death date	1983-12-21
Place of birth	Antwerp (Belgium)
Place of death	New Haven (Conn.)
Field of activity	Literary criticism Deconstruction Literature
Affiliation	Bard College Cornell University Johns Hopkins University Universität Zürich Yale University
Profession or occupation	Authors Critics College teachers
Found in	Flaubert, G. Madame Bovary, 1965. His Wartime journalism, 1940-1943, c1988: CIP t.p. (Paul de Man) data sheet (b. 1919; d. 1983) Info. from 678 field, Dec. 30, 2012 (Cornell Univ.) Wikipedia, via WWW, 23 December 2019 (Paul de Man, born December 6, 1919 in Antwerp, Belgium; died December 21, 1983 in New Haven, Connecticut. Born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, he was a literary critic and literary theorist. At the time of his death, de Man was one of the most prominent literary critics in the United States. De Man began his teaching career in the United States at Bard College. In 1960 he completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University, then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich. He joined the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of Deconstruction. At the time of his death from cancer, he was Sterling Professor of the Humanities and chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale.)
Associated language	eng