Chiasmus and culture / / edited by Boris Wiseman and Anthony Paul

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 808
• Soggetto topico: Rhetoric - Social aspects; Chiasmus; Interpersonal relations and culture
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): WisemanBoris; PaulAnthony <1941->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Chiasmus and culture
• ISBN: 0-85745-961-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480438803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in rhetoric and culture ; ; Volume 6.