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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... passage even while focusing on it directly . To read literally would be to halt one's inference at the literal referents of a passage literally written . What is the referent , though ? Just the literal ; the literal is what the passage ...
... passage invoking the ring of Gyges in the Sixième Promenade . Here Rousseau writes an allegory on fiction as invisibility , an allegory that can be read , and read to desig- nate the order of motivation as a permanent threat to the ...
... passage from one to the other : whether it is a passage between two passages of the same order , or a passage , a crossing , from one order to another . Wordsworth's cele- brated crossing poses this question as much as Kant's affirmed ...
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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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