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1 online resource (264 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; 6
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Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 6.
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| 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. |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rhetoric -- Social aspects.
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Rhetoric -- Social aspects. |
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Rhetoric. |
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Chiasmus.
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Chiasmus. |
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Interpersonal relations and culture.
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Interpersonal relations and culture. |
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Electronic books.
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Wiseman, Boris, editor.
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Paul, Anthony, 1941- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wiseman, Boris. Chiasmus And Culture. New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014 9780857459619 |
| ISBN |
9780857459619 (electronic book) |
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0857459619 (electronic book) |
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9780857459602 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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0857459600 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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