| Description |
ix, 234 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 209-228. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Romanticism -- Europe.
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European literature -- History and criticism.
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| Indexed Term |
European literatures, 1750-1930. Romanticism - Critical studies |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Chase, Cynthia, 1953- Decomposing figures. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1986 (OCoLC)648518606 |
| ISBN |
0801831369 (alk. paper) |
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9780801831362 (alk. paper) |
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