Chiasmus and Culture
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Chiasmus and Culture

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Chiasmus and Culture

About this book

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 with the possibility of using the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation. In the process, it provides the first book-length study not of chiasmus, the rhetorical figure, but of chiastic thought. The contributors are concerned with chiastic inversion and its place in social interactions, cultural creation, and more generally human thought and experience.They explore from a variety of angles what the unsettling logic of chiasmus (from the Greek meaning "cross-wise"), has to tell us about the world, human relations, cultural patterns, psychology, and artistic and poetic creation.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780857459602
eBook ISBN
9780857459619
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Chiasmus and Culture
  2. Studies in Rhetoric and Culture
  3. Chiasmus and Culture
  4. Contents
  5. Figures
  6. Introduction - Chiasmus in the Drama of Life
  7. Part I - The Pathos of Chiasmus
  8. CHAPTER 1 From Stasis to Ă©kstasis
  9. CHAPTER 2 What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back
  10. CHAPTER 3 Chiasmus and Metaphor
  11. Part II - Epistemological Reflections on Chiasmus
  12. CHAPTER 4 Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty
  13. CHAPTER 5 Chiasmi Figuring Difference
  14. CHAPTER 6 Forking
  15. Part III - Sensuous Experience Mediated by Chiasmus
  16. CHAPTER 7 Chiasm in Suspense in Psychoanalysis
  17. CHAPTER 8 Quotidian Chiasmus in Montaigne
  18. CHAPTER 9 Travestis, MichĂȘs and Chiasmus
  19. Part IV - Chiastic Structures in Ritual and Mytho-Poetic Texts
  20. CHAPTER 10 Parallelism and Chiasmus in Ritual Oration and Ostension in Tana Wai Brama, Eastern Indonesia
  21. CHAPTER 11 Chiasmus, Mythical Creation and H.C. Andersen’s ‘The Shadow’
  22. Notes on Contributors
  23. Index