...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2005 Learning from de Man: Looking Back Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak I find in the logic of parabasis a descriptive figure of action. This for me is the lesson of de Man. I ask the reader...

..., translation might act as a permanent parabasis,46 or disruption, in the very tendency toward stable rubrics—or, in Bakhtin’s terms, the tendency toward reification. Accented criticism can help us to “refuse the empirical inevitability of the world,” as George Steiner puts it, or “the greater...

... specializes in. This reader hears reverberating in his mind Gass asking mock-plaintively­ here, “Is any one paying attention out there?” If irony is, as Paul de Man put it, the permanent parabasis of narrative, then Gass is surely a master of contemporary irony. Similarly, the novel’s climax...

... by Ying-­Hui Cheng, “Miller on Hardy,” 76–­85, Yu-­Cheng Lee, “The Politics of the Ethics of Reading,” 86–­94, and Te-hsing­ Shan, “A Form of Parabasis: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller,” 95–­115; Shen Dan, “On Certain Limitations of Stylistics as Seen in Contrast with the Analytical Models...