Decomposing Figures Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition /
Cynthia Chase.
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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.
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Letterkunde. Literaire thema's. Romantiek. Romanticism. European literature. Rhetorique. Litterature europeenne--Histoire et critique. Romantisme--Europe. European literature--History and criticism. Romanticism--Europe.
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