Decomposing Figures : Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition / / Cynthia Chase.
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...
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 234 pages)) |
| Notes: | Originally published in 1986 |
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Table of Contents:
- Mutable images: voice and figure
- The accidents of disfiguration: limits to literal and figurative reading of Wordsworth's "Books"
- The ring of Gyges and The coat of darkness: reading Rousseau with Wordsworth
- Viewless wings: Keats's Ode to a nightingale
- Giving a face to a name: De Man's figures
- Getting versed: reading Hegel with Baudelaire
- Past effects: the double reading of narrative
- Mechanical doll, exploding machine: Kleist's models of narrative
- The decomposition of the elephants: double-reading Daniel Deronda
- Oedipal textuality: reading Freud's reading of Oedipus
- Paragon, parergon: Baudelaire translates Rousseau.