Chiasmus and Culture
Boris Wiseman (Ed.)
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Description for Chiasmus and Culture
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Wiseman, Boris; Paul, Anthony. Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 ills & figs. BIC Classification: CFGR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 550.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Studies in Rhetoric and Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857459602
SKU
V9780857459602
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About Boris Wiseman (Ed.)
Boris Wiseman is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Copenhagen University. He is the author of Lévi-Strauss Anthropology and Aesthetics (2007) and has edited two collections of essays on Lévi-Strauss, a special issue of Les Temps modernes (2004) and the Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss (2009) and co-edited a special issue of the journal Paragraph (2011) on French philosopher ... Read more
Reviews for Chiasmus and Culture
“This book makes a timely, original, and significant contribution to the study of rhetoric and culture. More specifically, this collection offers a sophisticated and wide-ranging analysis of chiasmus as a crucially important (but hitherto neglected) figure of speech and thought.” · Michael MacDonald, University of Waterloo “This is a great collection of texts written in the Rhetoric Culture paradigm ... Read more