Learning from language : symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism / / Walter H. Beale |
Autore | Beale Walter H. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 808/.042 |
Collana | Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Rhetoric
Symmetry in literature Language and languages - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8229-7360-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463893903321 |
Beale Walter H. | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Learning from language : symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism / / Walter H. Beale |
Autore | Beale Walter H. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 808/.042 |
Collana | Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Rhetoric
Symmetry in literature Language and languages - Philosophy |
ISBN | 0-8229-7360-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788800603321 |
Beale Walter H. | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Learning from language : symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism / / Walter H. Beale |
Autore | Beale Walter H. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 808/.042 |
Collana | Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Rhetoric
Symmetry in literature Language and languages - Philosophy |
ISBN | 0-8229-7360-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814244603321 |
Beale Walter H. | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Order in Disorder : Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne’s “Essais” / / Randolph Paul Runyon |
Autore | Runyon Randolph <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
Disciplina | 844/.3 |
Soggetto topico | Symmetry in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8142-7113-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : marginal symmetry -- Of means and ends: I: 1 and I: 57 -- The less said: I: 1 and I: 56 -- Something to hide: I: 3 and I: 55 -- Frivolous and vain: I: 4 and I: 54 -- In or out: I: 5 and I: 53 -- Trouble back home: I: 6 and I: 52 -- Words, in effect: I: 7 and I: 51 -- Of idleness and horses: I: 8 and I: 50 -- Lying, after a fashion: I: 9 and I: 49 -- Excess baggage: I: 10 and I: 48 -- Enough already: I: 11 and I: 47 -- Anagrams: I: 12 and I: 46 -- A waiting game: I: 13 and I: 45 -- More than one port in a storm: I: 14 and I: 44 -- Custom and princely grandeur: I: 15 and I: 43 -- Judging Julian judging: I: 16 and I: 42 -- Glory, given and taken: I: 17 and I: 41 -- Empty signs: I: 18 and I: 40 -- Prolonging life: I: 19 and I: 39 -- Unmasking masks: I: 20 and I: 38 -- Powers of attraction: I: 21 and I: 37 -- Complementarities and buried allusions: I: 22 and I: 36 -- Here and there: I: 23 and I: 35 -- How to paint a dog: I: 24 and I: 34 -- Well-nourished daughters: I: 25 and I: 33 -- God's wrath and the weather: I: 26 and I: 32 -- Things to come: I: 27 and I: 31 -- Of immoderation: I: 28 and I: 30 -- Sorting out the pieces: II: 1 and II: 37 -- Slipping it in: II: 2 and II: 36 -- Suicide is painless: II: 3 and II: 35 -- Caesar the procrastinator: II: 4 and II: 34 -- Suffering innocence: II: 5 and II: 33 -- Parallel deaths: II: 6 and II: 32 -- Rewards and punishments: II: 7 and II: 31 -- Hidden monsters: II: 8 and II: 30 -- Only when you need it: II: 9 and II: 29 -- Act your age: II: 10 and II: 28 -- Doubly cruel: II: 11 and II: 27 -- Opposable thumbs: II: 12 and II: 26 -- Eyes wide shut: II: 13 and II: 25 -- Equivalent equivalents: II: 14 and II: 24 -- Civil war vs. civil war: II: 15 and II: 23 -- Spreading the news: II: 16 and II: 22 -- Spitting images: II: 17 and II: 21 -- Consubstantial consubstantiality: II: 18 and II: 20 -- Distant harmonies: III: 1 and III: 13 -- Distant theft: III: 2 and III: 12 -- Intercourse with the lame: III: 3 and III: 11 -- The little things: III: 4 and III: 10 -- Sexual vanity, vain sex: III: 5 and III: 9 -- Borrowed wealth: III: 5 and III: 8 -- Journey to the center of the book: I: 29, II: 19, and III: 7 -- Epilogue: the playful text. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524884303321 |
Runyon Randolph <1947-> | ||
Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sightings [[electronic resource] ] : mirrors in texts -- texts in mirrors / / Joyce O. Lowrie |
Autore | Lowrie Joyce O |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 840.9 |
Collana | At the interface/probing the boundaries |
Soggetto topico |
Chiasmus
French literature - History and criticism French language - Rhetoric French language - Style Symmetry in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
94-012-0656-2
1-4356-9520-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Veluti in Speculum (As in a Looking Glass) -- The Mirror in the Middle: Mme de Thémines’s Letter in Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves -- The Prévan Cycle as Pre-Text in Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses -- The Frame and the Framed: Mirroring Texts in Balzac’s Facino Cane -- Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Une Page d’histoire: Incest as Mirror Image -- Reversals and Disappearance: Georges Rodenbach’s L’Ami des miroirs and Bruges-la-morte -- Man Mirrors Toad, or Vice-Versa: Decadent Narcissism in Jean Lorrain’s Oeuvre -- The Wheel of Fortune as Mirror: André Pieyre de Mandiargues’s La Motocyclette -- Kaleidoscopic Reflections in Guise of a Conclusion: Close, Maupassant, Douglas, and Borges. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453968803321 |
Lowrie Joyce O | ||
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sightings [[electronic resource] ] : mirrors in texts -- texts in mirrors / / Joyce O. Lowrie |
Autore | Lowrie Joyce O |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 840.9 |
Collana | At the interface/probing the boundaries |
Soggetto topico |
Chiasmus
French literature - History and criticism French language - Rhetoric French language - Style Symmetry in literature |
ISBN |
94-012-0656-2
1-4356-9520-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Veluti in Speculum (As in a Looking Glass) -- The Mirror in the Middle: Mme de Thémines’s Letter in Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves -- The Prévan Cycle as Pre-Text in Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses -- The Frame and the Framed: Mirroring Texts in Balzac’s Facino Cane -- Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Une Page d’histoire: Incest as Mirror Image -- Reversals and Disappearance: Georges Rodenbach’s L’Ami des miroirs and Bruges-la-morte -- Man Mirrors Toad, or Vice-Versa: Decadent Narcissism in Jean Lorrain’s Oeuvre -- The Wheel of Fortune as Mirror: André Pieyre de Mandiargues’s La Motocyclette -- Kaleidoscopic Reflections in Guise of a Conclusion: Close, Maupassant, Douglas, and Borges. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782872303321 |
Lowrie Joyce O | ||
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sightings : mirrors in texts -- texts in mirrors / / Joyce O. Lowrie |
Autore | Lowrie Joyce O |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 840.9 |
Collana | At the interface/probing the boundaries |
Soggetto topico |
Chiasmus
French literature - History and criticism French language - Rhetoric French language - Style Symmetry in literature |
ISBN |
94-012-0656-2
1-4356-9520-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Veluti in Speculum (As in a Looking Glass) -- The Mirror in the Middle: Mme de Thémines’s Letter in Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves -- The Prévan Cycle as Pre-Text in Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses -- The Frame and the Framed: Mirroring Texts in Balzac’s Facino Cane -- Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Une Page d’histoire: Incest as Mirror Image -- Reversals and Disappearance: Georges Rodenbach’s L’Ami des miroirs and Bruges-la-morte -- Man Mirrors Toad, or Vice-Versa: Decadent Narcissism in Jean Lorrain’s Oeuvre -- The Wheel of Fortune as Mirror: André Pieyre de Mandiargues’s La Motocyclette -- Kaleidoscopic Reflections in Guise of a Conclusion: Close, Maupassant, Douglas, and Borges. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808432903321 |
Lowrie Joyce O | ||
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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