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Chase, Cynthia, 1953-,

Decomposing Figures Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition / Cynthia Chase. - 1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 234 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Originally published in 1986

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

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.

Open Access

ISBN: 9781421434117

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Letterkunde.
Literaire thema's.
Romantiek.
Romanticism.
European literature.
Rhetorique.
Litterature europeenne--Histoire et critique.
Romantisme--Europe.
European literature--History and criticism.
Romanticism--Europe.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Europe.

Subjects--Index Terms: European literatures, 1750-1930. Romanticism - Critical studies

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN751

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.9145