Sightings : mirrors in texts - texts in mirrors /
Mirrors are mesmerizing. The rhetorical figure that represents a mirror is called a chiasmus, a pattern derived from the Greek letter X (Chi). This pattern applies to sentences such as ¿one does not live to eat; one eats to live.¿ It is found in myths, plays, poems, biblical songs, short stories, no...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
©2008.
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Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 54. At the interface/probing the boundaries. Visual literacies. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 disappearrance in 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 Mandiargue's La motocyclette
- Kaleidoscopic reflections in guise of a conclusion : Close, Maupassant, Douglas and Borges.