Abstract

Responding to recent critical discussions concerning a new or resurgent formalism, the essay questions the very distinction between formalism and historicism by exploring the widely divergent ways that Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man negotiate the dialectical problem of immanent critique in their respective meditations on allegory.

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