Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic TraditionJohns Hopkins University Press, 1 ביולי 1986 - 250 עמודים 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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... Deronda's revealed origins in a different perspective . The account of Deronda's situation has made it increasingly obvious to the reader that the progression of the hero's destiny - or , that is to say , the progression of the story ...
... Deronda's story . Not only the dis- closure of Deronda's parentage but the preceding part of the story as well reveal themselves to be based on unwarranted shifts of rhetorical categories . The earliest episode indicating Deronda's ...
... Deronda's relation- ship with Mordecai both stresses the authority of recognition or knowl- edge and undermines the basis of this authority . The contradiction here resembles the one involved in the disclosure of Deronda's birth , which ...
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The Accidents of Disfiguration | 13 |
The Ring of Gyges and the Coat of Darkness | 32 |
Viewless Wings | 65 |
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