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Question 1: De Man oversaw the dissertations of both Gayatri Spivak and ________.
Jacques DerridaDeconstructionBarbara JohnsonPhilosophy

Question 2: On August 4, 1942, the first trainload of Belgian Jews left ________ for Auschwitz.
PragueBerlinBrusselsAmsterdam

Question 3: First, de Man seeks to deconstruct the privileged claims in Romanticism of symbol over ________, and metaphor over metonymy.
C. S. LewisJ. R. R. TolkienAllegoryPlato

Question 4: Hegel, Walter Benjamin, William Butler Yeats, ________ and Rainer Maria Rilke.
RomanticismJohann Wolfgang von GoetheFriedrich Daniel Ernst SchleiermacherFriedrich Hölderlin

Question 5: ________, Memoires for Paul de Man
StructuralismDeconstructionHenri BergsonJacques Derrida

Question 6: Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 – December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist ________ and theorist.
TragedyPoetryLiterary criticismNovel

Question 7: Many of the essays in this volume attempt to undercut figural totalization, the notion that one can control or dominate a discourse or phenomenon through ________.
MetaphorRhetoricAnalogyAristotle

Question 8: He then taught at ________, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich, before ending up on the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of deconstruction.
Rutgers UniversityBrown UniversityColumbia UniversityCornell University

Question 9: In 1966, de Man met ________ at a conference at Johns Hopkins University on structuralism during which Derrida first delivered his essay "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences".
Henri BergsonDeconstructionJacques DerridaLudwig Wittgenstein

Question 10: a ________ approach) was able to harmonize the logical and grammatical dimension of literature, but only at the expense of effacing the rhetorical elements of texts which presented the greatest interpretive demands.
Henri BergsonJacques DerridaStructuralismDeconstruction
















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