Neil Hertz papers on Paul de Man, 1987 - 1990.

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Neil Hertz papers on Paul de Man, 1987 - 1990.

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This collection comprises research notes and correspondence from Neil Hertz' and Tom Kennan's 1988 research trip to Belgium to gather information for Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism. Of particular interest are photocopies of texts that were located by Hertz' Belgium contacts including: Galerie des Traitres, denouncing wartime writers for Le Soir; Le Chant Dans les Ruines and Le Massacre des Innocents, poems reviewed by deMan in Le Soir; and Exercise du Silence, the introductory essay to the fourth issue of Messages, which de Man helped get published in Brussels after the journal was banned in Paris. Additionally, the collection includes correspondence from Georges Poulet and Jan de Man, son of Henrik de Man.

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University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Hertz, Neil.

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Neil Hertz grew up in New York City. He earned his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Amherst College in 1953 before spending a year abroad at the University of Bordeaux as a Fulbright Scholar. In 1954 Hertz enlisted in the army and served for two years before enrolling at Harvard where he earned his M.A. in English in 1960. In 1961 Hertz returned to New York to teach English at Cornell University. He left Cornell in 1982 to continue his career at John Hopkins University as Professor of humani...

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Kennan, Tom.

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