Chiasmus and Culture
by Paul, Anthony Wiseman, Boris
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 ch…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Chiasmus and Culture / edited by Boris Wiseman and Anthony Paul.
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.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (264 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780857459619, 0857459619
- oclc:ocn875095970
- LC Classification:P301.5.S63
- Dewey Decimal:808
Table of 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.
Subjects
Writers
More from this Series
No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.
Related Works
more →
Working with faculty writers
Editing women's writing
The Princeton handbook of world poetries
Rate & Review