biography
pronunciation:
[man]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1919–83)
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| biography:
| Cultural theorist, born in Belgium. Controversy has surrounded his writings for collaborationist journals during World War 2. After the war he emigrated to the USA, and taught at several universities, including Yale, where he became a leading exponent of the critical method known as deconstruction. His most important essays were published in Blindness and Insight (1971) and Allegories of Reading (1979). |
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