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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... things work endless changes . . . . ( 5.595-99 ) " Viewless winds " is a curious pleonasm . “ Viewless wings " calls ... thing as a hiersein ; but one need not stray farther than Lycidas , really , to dis- pute Brisman's sanguine reading ...
... thing like another unlike thing — and make it stick . The resistless and indiscriminate activity of le soleil is the power of the mind in using signs , rather than symbols , celebrated in the Ency- clopedia . It makes the natural ...
... thing itself in Freud's text . In its very unreadability , in passages like the one above , Freud's writing generates itself as the thing evoked in the riddle of the dream — or in the riddle of the Sphinx . For if the Oedi- pus of ...
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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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