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portada Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
250
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781421434094
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Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition

Cynthia Chase (Author) · Johns Hopkins University Press · Paperback

Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition - Chase, Cynthia

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Synopsis "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 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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