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Chase, Cynthia

 
9780801831362: Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition
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ISBN 10: 0801831369 ISBN 13: 9780801831362
Editorial: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

Sinopsis

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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Cynthia Chase teaches in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her focuses are on literature of the Romantic period and on nineteenth and twentieth century writing about the survival of poetry and the concept of human rights.

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Editorial
Johns Hopkins University Press
Año de publicación
1986
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801831369
ISBN 13 
9780801831362
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Número de páginas
250
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