Description based upon print version of record Acknowledgments; Introduction; n Romanticismsn 1; Postmodernist Romanticism or Romantic Postmodernism?; Delimiting; 1. Boundaries; Three Romantic examples; Dyadic approaches; Towards triadic models: Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, and Peirce; 2. Magic Words? The Semiotics of Romanticism; Searching for magic signs; Inspiration from the enemy: Locke, Condillac, Herder; Natural wonders or wild language games; Romantic tensions today: between signification and subjectification; 3. Semiotic Boundaries; Expressions of semiotic a-limitation; Moby-Dick: signs on men and whales. Changing spaces: the Taugenichts on the thresholdApproaching limits: Charlotte Smith's visions of the sea; Multiplicity as the final frontier: Walt Whitman's American landscape; 8. Theory Plateau on Spatial A-limitation; Binary boundaries and the limit; Transgression and heterotopia; Rhizomes; The smooth and the striated; 9. In Place of a Conclusion; Fragmented and convulsive: Whitman, Deleuze, and the limit; Following Whitman into Modernism; House of Leaves as an example of Postmodernist a-limitation; Bibliography. The transgressive subject in Poe: lost in the crowd and afraid of the mergeThe transcendent subject: becoming-woman, becoming-plant, becoming-poet; The dissolved but unified subject: becoming-Jerusalem; Between Poe, Novalis, and Blake; 6. Theory Plateau on Subject A-limitation; What is a subject? An introduction through Walt Whitman; The subject as part of larger systems: myth and nature in "Mondnacht"; Creating the self in Idealism; The Romantic subject and its becomings; Becoming-sign and becoming-posthuman; 7. Spatial Boundaries; From sign to subject to space: Jerusalem's journey. Uncanny ekphrasis: pictures of whales and demonsTransgressive intertexts; Schizonarration: Ishmael and the boundaries of narration; The retreat of the signified: embedded narratives; Whose world is this? From story to discourse and back; Summary and Ishmael's rhizomatic book; 4. Theory Plateau on Semiotic A-limitation; Single signs: Eichendorff's "Mondnacht"; Intertextuality; Ekphrasis as intermedial phenomenon; Narrative I: possible worlds; Narrative II: the discourse level; 5. Subject Boundaries; Becoming-sign: the effects of liminal semiotics on the subject. Acknowledgments; Introduction; n Romanticisms - n 1; Postmodernist Romanticism or Romantic Postmodernism?; Delimiting; 1. Boundaries; Three Romantic examples; Dyadic approaches; Towards triadic models: Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, and Peirce; 2. Magic Words? The Semiotics of Romanticism; Searching for magic signs; Inspiration from the enemy: Locke, Condillac, Herder; Natural wonders or wild language games; Romantic tensions today: between signification and subjectification; 3. Semiotic Boundaries; Expressions of semiotic a-limitation; Moby-Dick: signs on men and whales Uncanny ekphrasis: pictures of whales and demonsTransgressive intertexts; Schizonarration: Ishmael and the boundaries of narration; The retreat of the signified: embedded narratives; Whose world is this? From story to discourse and back; Summary and Ishmael's rhizomatic book; 4. Theory Plateau on Semiotic A-limitation; Single signs: Eichendorff's "Mondnacht"; Intertextuality; Ekphrasis as intermedial phenomenon; Narrative I: possible worlds; Narrative II: the discourse level; 5. Subject Boundaries; Becoming-sign: the effects of liminal semiotics on the subject The transgressive subject in Poe: lost in the crowd and afraid of the mergeThe transcendent subject: becoming-woman, becoming-plant, becoming-poet; The dissolved but unified subject: becoming-Jerusalem; Between Poe, Novalis, and Blake; 6. Theory Plateau on Subject A-limitation; What is a subject? An introduction through Walt Whitman; The subject as part of larger systems: myth and nature in "Mondnacht"; Creating the self in Idealism; The Romantic subject and its becomings; Becoming-sign and becoming-posthuman; 7. Spatial Boundaries; From sign to subject to space: Jerusalem's journey Changing spaces: the Taugenichts on the thresholdApproaching limits: Charlotte Smith's visions of the sea; Multiplicity as the final frontier: Walt Whitman's American landscape; 8. Theory Plateau on Spatial A-limitation; Binary boundaries and the limit; Transgression and heterotopia; Rhizomes; The smooth and the striated; 9. In Place of a Conclusion; Fragmented and convulsive: Whitman, Deleuze, and the limit; Following Whitman into Modernism; House of Leaves as an example of Postmodernist a-limitation; Bibliography Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2011 |
