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Chiasmus and culture / edited by Boris Wiseman and Anthony Paul.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in rhetoric and culture ; Volume 6.
- Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; Volume 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric--Social aspects.
- Rhetoric.
- Chiasmus.
- Interpersonal relations and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for performing a pirouette of syntax and thought. Going beyond traditional rhetoric, this volume is concerned with the possibility of using the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation. In the process, it provides the first book-length study not of chiasmus, the rhetorical figure, but of chiastic thought. The contributors are concerned with chiast
- Contents:
- Chiasmus and Culture; Studies in Rhetoric and Culture; Chiasmus and Culture; Contents; Figures; Introduction - Chiasmus in the Drama of Life; Part I - The Pathos of Chiasmus; CHAPTER 1 From Stasis to ékstasis; CHAPTER 2 What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back; CHAPTER 3 Chiasmus and Metaphor; Part II - Epistemological Reflections on Chiasmus; CHAPTER 4 Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty; CHAPTER 5 Chiasmi Figuring Difference; CHAPTER 6 Forking; Part III - Sensuous Experience Mediated by Chiasmus; CHAPTER 7 Chiasm in Suspense in Psychoanalysis; CHAPTER 8 Quotidian Chiasmus in Montaigne
- CHAPTER 9 Travestis, Michês and ChiasmusPart IV - Chiastic Structures in Ritual and Mytho-Poetic Texts; CHAPTER 10 Parallelism and Chiasmus in Ritual Oration and Ostension in Tana Wai Brama, Eastern Indonesia; CHAPTER 11 Chiasmus, Mythical Creation and H.C. Andersen's 'The Shadow'; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857459619
- 0857459619
- OCLC:
- 875095970
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