ISBN:
9780857459619
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
264 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 6
Keywords:
General Cultural Studies
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Anthony Paul and Boris Wiseman -- -- PART I: THE PATHOS OF CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 1. From stasis to ek-stasis: four types of chiasmus -- Anthony Paul -- -- Chapter 2. What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back -- Robert Hariman -- -- Chapter 3. Chiasmus and Metaphor -- Ivo Strecker -- -- PART II: EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 4. Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty, metaphor or concept? -- Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel -- -- Chapter 5. Chiasmi figuring difference -- Stephen Tyler -- -- Chapter 6. Forking: Rhetoric χ Rhetoric -- Phillipe-Joseph Salazar -- -- PART III: SENSUOUS EXPERIENCE MEDIATED BY CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 7. Chiasm in suspense in psychoanalysis -- Alain Vanier -- -- Chapter 8. Quotidian Chiasmus in Montaigne -- Phillip John Usher -- -- Chapter 9. 'Travestis, Michês' and Chiasmus -- Ben Bollig -- -- PART IV: CHIASTIC STRUCTURES IN RITUAL AND MYTHO-POETIC TEXTS -- -- Chapter 10. Parallelism and Chiasmus in Ritual Oration -- Douglas Lewis -- -- Chapter 11. Chiasmus, mythical creation and H.C. Andersen's The Shadow followed by a "Response" from Lucien Scubla -- Boris Wiseman -- -- Bibliography -- Index --
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