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Chiasmus and Culture

Hardcover • 2013 • 1. edition

Chiasmus and Culture

By Boris Wiseman, Anthony Paul

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About the 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 chi...Show more

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9780857459602

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published year

2013

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1

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Chiasmus and Culture

Format

Hardcover

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