Cynthia Chase
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Chase |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Chase |
| SIGNATURE | CHASE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Memory of Modern Life (Baudelaire)
Our History
Monument and Inscription
need scarcely be said, that an Epitaph presupposes a Monument, upon which it is to be engraven [Prose 2: 49]. In this remark, the opening sentence of Wordsworth's longest critical text, the Essays upon Epitaphs, Monument has a flatly literal meaning: a material object, stationary and commemorative, that provides a surface for inscription. The word is devoid of any attribution of value, such as it carries in a usage like monuments of Western art. …
Wordsworth and the Production of Poetry
The Witty Butcher's Wife
I want to consider in this essay the meaning of the importance of identification in desire. One of the most fruitful trends in psychoanalytic thought of the last decade is a rediscovery of the extraordinary significance of narcissism, or of the specular conditions of any playing out of desire, any establishing of relations, any symbolizing activity. This trend can be seen as a critical reaction against Lacan's privileging of the Symbolic order ov…
Decomposing Figures
Models of Narrative
T w o brief prose pieces by Heinrich von Kleist provide contrast ing, complementary models of the processes of reading and narrating a text . Through the images they present and the narrative act iv i ty they exemplify, Uber das Marionettentheater and Unwahrscheinliche Wahrhaftigkeiten offer clues w e can organise into a systematic, if surprising, account of narrative funct ions. Both Kleist's texts are stories about the tell ing of stories. In e…
Paragon, Parergon
Oedipal Textuality
Of all the fictions that Freud calls upon to render an account of the psychefrom Emperor's New Clothes in The Interpretation of Dreams to the legend of Moses in Moses and Monotheism-the drama of Oedipus is his most recurrent and insistent reference. Sophocles' protagonist provides the name for what Freud frequently presented as his major discovery. The Oedipus complex still challenges definition from contemporary analysts and theorists, and write…
Telling Truths
The Decomposition of the Elephants
A letter to the hero in Daniel Deronda offers an interpretation of George Eliot’s novel, an account of its rhetorical principles: the Deronda plot discloses not the “effects of causes” but the “present causes of past effects.” This metaleptic plot structure contradicts the linking of origin, cause, and identity affirmed in the story of Deronda’s Jewish birth. The story must shift between constative and performative conceptions of language and mus…
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The Decomposition of the Elephants
A letter to the hero in Daniel Deronda offers an interpretation of George Eliot’s novel, an account of its rhetorical principles: the Deronda plot discloses not the “effects of causes” but the “present causes of past effects.” This metaleptic plot structure contradicts the linking of origin, cause, and identity affirmed in the story of Deronda’s Jewish birth. The story must shift between constative and performative conceptions of language and mus…
Oedipal Textuality
Of all the fictions that Freud calls upon to render an account of the psychefrom Emperor's New Clothes in The Interpretation of Dreams to the legend of Moses in Moses and Monotheism-the drama of Oedipus is his most recurrent and insistent reference. Sophocles' protagonist provides the name for what Freud frequently presented as his major discovery. The Oedipus complex still challenges definition from contemporary analysts and theorists, and write…
Telling Truths
Paragon, Parergon
Models of Narrative
T w o brief prose pieces by Heinrich von Kleist provide contrast ing, complementary models of the processes of reading and narrating a text . Through the images they present and the narrative act iv i ty they exemplify, Uber das Marionettentheater and Unwahrscheinliche Wahrhaftigkeiten offer clues w e can organise into a systematic, if surprising, account of narrative funct ions. Both Kleist's texts are stories about the tell ing of stories. In e…
Decomposing Figures
Monument and Inscription
need scarcely be said, that an Epitaph presupposes a Monument, upon which it is to be engraven [Prose 2: 49]. In this remark, the opening sentence of Wordsworth's longest critical text, the Essays upon Epitaphs, Monument has a flatly literal meaning: a material object, stationary and commemorative, that provides a surface for inscription. The word is devoid of any attribution of value, such as it carries in a usage like monuments of Western art. …
Wordsworth and the Production of Poetry
The Witty Butcher's Wife
I want to consider in this essay the meaning of the importance of identification in desire. One of the most fruitful trends in psychoanalytic thought of the last decade is a rediscovery of the extraordinary significance of narcissism, or of the specular conditions of any playing out of desire, any establishing of relations, any symbolizing activity. This trend can be seen as a critical reaction against Lacan's privileging of the Symbolic order ov…
Our History
The Memory of Modern Life (Baudelaire)
Art (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · French Literature and Poetry (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)