Chiasmus and Culture / edited by Boris Wiseman and Anthony Paul
- Published
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (264 pages).
- Additional Creators
- Wiseman, Boris and Paul, Anthony, 1941-
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- Series
- 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. and 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.
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 9780857459619 (electronic bk.)
0857459619 (electronic bk.)
9780857459602 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
0857459600 (hardback ; acid-free paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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