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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... conceive sense or mean- ing , as a state of deprivation . Samson's disorienting complaint for the very orientation of language ... conceived as voice . To refer to the silence of the sun as a catastrophe is to point to how vital is the ...
... conceiving ; . • 21 The " book " makes its reader mute . To hear a monument , to hear its " easy numbers flow , " is ... conceived as light , as the presentation of an intelligible figure ; otherwise the very sense of voice or light is ...
... conceived as a metaphor for the self . Consider what we are told about the boy . He is said to have borne a striking resemblance to the well - known classical statue of the youth drawing a splinter from his foot . At stake here are two ...
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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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