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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lowrie, Joyce O.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008.
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
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  • 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.