Chiasmus and Culture / / ed. by Anthony Paul, Boris Wiseman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bollig, Ben,; Hariman, Robert,; Lewis, E. Douglas,; Paul, Anthony,; Salazar, Philippe-Joseph,; Strecker, Ivo,; Thomas-Fogiel, Isabelle,; Tyler, Stephen,; Usher, Phillip John,; Vanier, Alain,; Wiseman, Boris,
• HerausgeberIn: Paul, Anthony,; Wiseman, Boris,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction: Chiasmus in the Drama of Life -- Part I The Pathos of Chiasmus -- CHAPTER 1 From Stasis to Ékstasis Four Types of Chiasmus -- CHAPTER 2 What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back -- CHAPTER 3 Chiasmus and Metaphor -- Part II Epistemological Reflections on Chiasmus -- CHAPTER 4 Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty: Metaphor or Concept? -- CHAPTER 5 Chiasmi Figuring Difference -- CHAPTER 6 Forking RHETORIC χ RHETORIC (a meditation upon Rhetoric 1354a 1–11, Deleuze and Joan Miró) In memoriam Georges Dumézil -- Part III Sensuous Experience Mediated by Chiasmus -- CHAPTER 7 Chiasm in Suspense in Psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER 8 Quotidian Chiasmus in Montaigne: Arguing Impotence and Suicide -- CHAPTER 9 Travestis, Michês and Chiasmus: Crossing and Cross-Dressing in the Work of Néstor Perlongher -- Part IV Chiastic Structures in Ritual and Mytho-Poetic Texts -- CHAPTER 10 Parallelism and Chiasmus in Ritual Oration and Ostension in Tana Wai Brama, Eastern Indonesia -- CHAPTER 11 Chiasmus, Mythical Creation and H.C. Andersen’s ‘The Shadow’ -- Notes on Contributors -- Index