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[This document, untitled, undated, and unsigned,
is almost certainly by Paul de Man, and dates from around
1975. It proposes a new undergraduate course for the
Literature Major for "the Fall or latest the Spring
semester of 1976"; a handwritten correction to this phrase
changes "1976" to "1977," and inserts "of 1976" after
"Fall." The course actually debuted in the spring of
1977, team-taught by Paul de Man and Geoffrey Hartman. For
more on the Literature Major at Yale and the importance of
"Literature Z" as an institutional support for rhetorical
reading, see the headnote to Appendix I. This
document is published here with the kind permission of the
Yale Comparative Literature Department. Many thanks
to Peter Brooks for making the document available to me,
and to David Quint, Chair of Comparative Literature, for
approving its publication. A copy of this document has been
donated to the Paul de Man archive at the University of
California, Irvine.]
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