Blindness and Insight
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Blindness and Insight is a seminal collection of literary-critical essays by Paul de Man that helped define deconstructionist theory and reshape modern literary criticism.
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| Blindness and Insight canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blindness and Insight Context triple: [Paul de Man, notableWork, Blindness and Insight]
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The Mind’s Eye
The Mind’s Eye is a 2015 indie science-fiction horror film about telekinetic individuals hunted by a sinister organization, directed by Joe Begos.
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The Blind Leading the Blind
The Blind Leading the Blind is a 1568 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a line of blind men stumbling into a ditch, often interpreted as a moral and religious allegory about human folly and misguided leadership.
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C.
Light and Truth
Light and Truth is the English rendering of Yale University's Latin motto "Lux et Veritas," expressing the institution's commitment to knowledge and enlightenment.
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Darkness Visible
Darkness Visible is a 1979 novel by William Golding that explores themes of good, evil, and human corruption through the intertwined lives of a disfigured mystic and a pair of troubled twins.
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E.
Tunnel Vision
"Tunnel Vision" is a track by hip-hop band The Roots featured on their critically acclaimed album "How I Got Over."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blindness and Insight Target entity description: Blindness and Insight is a seminal collection of literary-critical essays by Paul de Man that helped define deconstructionist theory and reshape modern literary criticism.
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A.
The Mind’s Eye
The Mind’s Eye is a 2015 indie science-fiction horror film about telekinetic individuals hunted by a sinister organization, directed by Joe Begos.
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B.
The Blind Leading the Blind
The Blind Leading the Blind is a 1568 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a line of blind men stumbling into a ditch, often interpreted as a moral and religious allegory about human folly and misguided leadership.
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C.
Light and Truth
Light and Truth is the English rendering of Yale University's Latin motto "Lux et Veritas," expressing the institution's commitment to knowledge and enlightenment.
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D.
Darkness Visible
Darkness Visible is a 1979 novel by William Golding that explores themes of good, evil, and human corruption through the intertwined lives of a disfigured mystic and a pair of troubled twins.
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E.
Tunnel Vision
"Tunnel Vision" is a track by hip-hop band The Roots featured on their critically acclaimed album "How I Got Over."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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essay collection ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
English studies
NERFINISHED
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comparative literature ⓘ |
| addresses |
instability of literary meaning
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limits of critical knowledge ⓘ relationship between theory and reading ⓘ |
| author | Paul de Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
blindness in reading
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insight in interpretation ⓘ rhetorical reading ⓘ self-reflexivity of criticism ⓘ undecidability of meaning ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
humanities
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literary studies ⓘ |
| genre |
critical theory
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literary criticism ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
deconstructionist theory
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modern literary criticism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
essay "Criticism and Crisis"
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essay "Form and Intent in the American New Criticism" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Heidegger’s Exegeses of Hölderlin" ⓘ essay "The Concept of Irony" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Intentional Structure of the Romantic Image" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Rhetoric of Blindness" ⓘ essay "The Rhetoric of Persuasion" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Rhetoric of Temporality" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReception |
considered a seminal work in literary theory
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widely studied in graduate literary programs ⓘ |
| influenced |
Anglo-American literary theory
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Yale School of deconstruction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Romanticism
NERFINISHED
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aesthetics ⓘ literary theory ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ reading and interpretation ⓘ rhetoric of criticism ⓘ |
| movement | deconstruction ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping define deconstructionist theory
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reshaping modern literary criticism ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| publisher | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| theoreticalOrientation |
deconstruction
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poststructuralism ⓘ |
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