Chiasmus and Culture

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-85745-960-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiseman, Boris

Paul, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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; 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, Miches' 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

Über Autor(innen)

Wiseman, Boris
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 Claude Imbert. He has an interest in aesthetics and the senses and is currently working on the visual capture of movement, in particular in 19th century France.

Paul, Anthony
Anthony Paul lectured on translation studies and English literature at the University of Amsterdam from 1972 to 2002. He is the author of The Torture of the Mind: Macbeth, Tragedy and Chiasmus (1992) and has published several works of literary fiction and translations. His latest novel, More than a Dream, has been published as an e-book (2013).

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 Claude Imbert. He has an interest in aesthetics and the senses and is currently working on the visual capture of movement, in particular in 19th century France.