Decomposing Figures

Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Originally published in 1986. The ghastly fate of a drowned man brought to a lake's surface in Wordsworth's "Prelude" typifies a fundamental pattern in Romantic writing, argues Cynthia Chase. Disfiguration involves not only a departure from representation but a disruption of the logic of figure or form, a decomposition of the figures composing the text. Ultimately it manifests the conflict between a work's meaning and its mode of performance. By means of an intense engagement with texts in the romantic tradition, Decomposing Figures rearticulates and recasts crucial concepts in recent literary theory, including the notion of the self-referential or self-reflexive nature of the literary work. Chase's readings show that, far from implying a privileged status, the work's self-reflexive structure entails its opacity, its inability to read itself, and the necessity of its decomposition.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421434094

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Cynthia Chase teaches in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her focuses are on literature of the Romantic period and on nineteenth and twentieth century writing about the survival of poetry and the concept of human rights.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Mutable Images: Voice and FigureChapter 1. The Accidents of Disfiguration Limits to Literal and Figurative Reading of Wordsworth's "Books"Chapter 2. The Ring of Gyges and the Coat of Darkness Reading Rousseau with WordsworthChapter 3. Viewless Wings Keats's Ode to a NightingaleChapter 4. Giving a Face to a Name De Man's FiguresChapter 5. Getting Versed Reading Hegel with BaudelairePart II: Past Effects: The Double Reading of NarrativeChapter 6. Mechanical Doll, Exploding Machine Kleist's Models of NarrativeChapter 7. The Decomposition of the Elephants Double-Reading Daniel DerondaChapter 8. Oedipal Textuality Reading Freud's Reading of OedipusChapter 9. Paragon, Parergon Baudelaire Translates RousseauNotes Index