Chiasmus and Culture

Chiasmus and Culture
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780857459619
ISBN-13 : 0857459619
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Book Synopsis Chiasmus and Culture by : Boris Wiseman

Download or read book Chiasmus and Culture written by Boris Wiseman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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