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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wiseman, Boris (Editor ), Paul, Anthony, 1941- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
New York, NY : 2014.
Colección:Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 6.
Temas:
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Chiasmus.
Interpersonal relations and culture.
Rhétorique > Aspect social.
Chiasme.
Relations humaines et culture.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Chiasmus
Interpersonal relations and culture
Rhetoric > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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