1. Paul de Man, Blindness and Insight (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 31. break [BACK]

2. Frank Lentricchia, After the New Criticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. xii. [BACK]

3. Robert Greer Cohn, "Mallarmé on Derrida," The French Review 61 (1988): 884-89, at p. 888. [BACK]

4. Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), p. 47. See below, p. 225. [BACK]

5. De Man, Blindness and Insight, p. 185. [BACK]

6. Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983). I review Eagleton's presentation in chapter 4. [BACK]

7. Lentricchia, After the New Criticism, p. 293. [BACK]

8. Claude Bremond, Logique du récit (Paris: Seuil, 1973). [BACK]

9. Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), p. 379. [BACK]

10. See below, pp. 222-23. [BACK]

11. John Macquarrie, Principles of Christian Theology (New York: Scribners, 1966), p. 105. [BACK]

12. Signs of the Times, ed. Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe, and Christopher Prendergast (Cambridge: Granta, 1971), p. 48. [BACK]

13. See, for example, Robert Greer Cohn, "Derrida at Yale," New Criterion 4, no. 9 (May 1986): 82—84. Cohn says that Derrida "leans heavily on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Blanchot, and, not least, Mallarmé" (p. 83). [BACK]