「탈형상화된 셸리」 와 (탈)형상화로서의 읽기

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This paper analyzes “Shelley Disfigured” by following de Man’s double strategy of a specular and non-phenomenal reading. It shows that all specular understanding in The Triumph of Life becomes blocked already at its thematic level. The paper then proceeds to the non-phenomenal reading that focuses on the materiality of language. The materiality of language such as the signifier, trope and grammar disrupts the iconic and signifying aspects of the figure. Only the positing power of language, however, partakes in the very violence of mindless and absolutely singular disruption of the figuration. Finally, the paper argues that disfiguration always stages only a figure in need of further disfiguration.

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