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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524868103321

Autore

Chase Cynthia <1953-, >

Titolo

Decomposing Figures : Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition / / Cynthia Chase

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

1-4214-3409-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 234 pages))

Disciplina

809/.9145

Soggetti

Letterkunde

Literaire thema's

Romantiek

Romanticism

European literature

Rhetorique

Litterature europeenne - Histoire et critique

Romantisme - Europe

European literature - History and criticism

Romanticism - Europe

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in 1986

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.