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.
Boris Wiseman is Associate Professor of French and Francophone
Studies at Copenhagen University. He is the author of "Levi-Strauss
Anthropology and Aesthetics" (2007) and has edited two collections
of essays on Levi-Strauss, a special issue of "Les Temps modernes"
(2004) and the "Cambridge Companion to Levi-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.
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).
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