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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... readers who oversimplify the complex contin- gencies of literary texts . Radicalized , the opposition of educational process ... reader must take his place under the other - an imposition that impels 99 readers of Romantic texts , like ...
... reader mute . To hear a monument , to hear its " easy numbers flow , " is to take on ourselves the mute fixity of a text . By revealing the figurative and fictive nature of its voice , the book ex- poses the voicelessness of language ...
... reader is forced to forget the meaning of the word's sound in order to follow its function in the syntax of the anecdote . What the reader is forced to forget is forgetting . At the same time the dual sign forces forgetting on the reader ...
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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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