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Titolo |
Chiasmus and culture / / edited by Boris Wiseman and Anthony Paul |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; ; Volume 6 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rhetoric - Social aspects |
Chiasmus |
Interpersonal relations and culture |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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