LEADER 03878oam 22007454a 450 001 9910524868103321 005 20230621135907.0 010 $a0-8018-3136-9 010 $a1-4214-3409-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460855 035 $a(OCoLC)1122725393 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78190 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88916 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29139101 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29139101 035 $a(oapen)doab88916 035 $a(OCoLC)1526860199 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460855 100 $a19860203d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDecomposing Figures$eRhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition /$fCynthia Chase 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 234 pages)) 300 $aOriginally published in 1986 311 08$a1-4214-3410-5 311 08$a1-4214-3411-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index. 327 $tMutable images: voice and figure --$tThe accidents of disfiguration: limits to literal and figurative reading of Wordsworth's "Books" --$tThe ring of Gyges and The coat of darkness: reading Rousseau with Wordsworth --$tViewless wings: Keats's Ode to a nightingale --$tGiving a face to a name: De Man's figures --$tGetting versed: reading Hegel with Baudelaire --$tPast effects: the double reading of narrative --$tMechanical doll, exploding machine: Kleist's models of narrative --$tThe decomposition of the elephants: double-reading Daniel Deronda --$tOedipal textuality: reading Freud's reading of Oedipus --$tParagon, parergon: Baudelaire translates Rousseau. 330 $aOriginally 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. 606 $aLetterkunde$2gtt 606 $aLiteraire thema's$2gtt 606 $aRomantiek$2gtt 606 $aRomanticism$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01100133 606 $aEuropean literature$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00916751 606 $aRhetorique 606 $aLitterature europeenne$xHistoire et critique 606 $aRomantisme$zEurope 606 $aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRomanticism$zEurope 607 $aEurope$2fast 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 10$aLetterkunde. 615 10$aLiteraire thema's. 615 10$aRomantiek. 615 0$aRomanticism. 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aRhetorique. 615 0$aLitterature europeenne$xHistoire et critique. 615 0$aRomantisme 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRomanticism 676 $a809/.9145 700 $aChase$b Cynthia$f1953-, $01115800 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524868103321 996 $aDecomposing Figures$92642862 997 $aUNINA