Decomposing Figures : Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition

Decomposing Figures Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Chase, Cynthia, 1953-, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press
Materias:
Letterkunde.
Literaire thema's.
Romantiek.
Romanticism.
European literature.
Rhetorique.
Litterature europeenne > Histoire et critique.
Romantisme > Europe.
European literature > History and criticism.
Romanticism > Europe.
Europe.
European literatures, 1750-1930. > Romanticism - Critical studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439621206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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