Presumably one of the last publications we shall receive that will be able to acknowledge the personal influence of Paul de Man's teaching... Exciting and tenacious.
John Baker Comparative Literature Studies 1994 Her aim is nothing less than to rethink the place of experience in the texts which constitute our transcendental and Romantic self-understanding. Caruth's reexamination of the enigma ... Read moreof experience proceeds through painstakingly close readings of some major texts of our modernity.
Heesok Chang Wordsworth Circle 1994 A very thoughtful and valuable contribution to understanding empiricism's critical resistance to its own theory. Choice 1991 Caruth's absorbing book is powerful enough to challenge and engage one's own predispositions, and to continue very lively debates.
Keith Hanley Modern Language Review Reanimates this region of the critical terrain... Caruth's book belongs to that special category of works in literary theory that are not only intellectually stimulating but affectively moving. Modern Language Notes Its reminder of a critical style now apparently sidelined by various modes of historicist inquiry could not be timelier. Studies in English Literature 2010 Show Less