Learning from language : symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism / / Walter H. Beale
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| Autore: |
Beale Walter H.
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| Titolo: |
Learning from language : symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism / / Walter H. Beale
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| Pubblicazione: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2009 |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 808/.042 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Rhetoric |
| Symmetry in literature | |
| Language and languages - Philosophy | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism -- Two famous asymmetrists -- Six claims of symmetry -- Reading the world: structural analogy -- Creating the world: the performative principle -- Naming and renaming the world -- Figuring (out) the world: tropes and tropology -- Style and virtue -- Conclusion: the love of words. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Learning from language |
| ISBN: | 0-8229-7360-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814244603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.