Mirrors are mesmerizing. The rhetorical figure that represents a
mirror is called a "chiasmus," a pattern derived from the Greek
letter X (Chi). This pattern applies to sentences such as one does
not live to eat; one eats to live. It is found in myths, plays,
poems, biblical songs, short stories, novels, epics. Numerous
studies have dealt with repetition, difference, and Narcissism in
the fields of literature, music, and art. But mirror structures,
"per se," have not received systematic notice. This book analyses
mirror imagery, scenes, and characters in French prose texts, in
chronological order, from the 17th to the 20th centuries. It does
so in light of literal, metaphoric, and rhetorical structures.
Works analysed in the traditional French canon, written by such
writers as Laclos, Lafayette, and Balzac, are extended by studies
of texts composed by Barbey d Aurevilly, Georges Rodenbach, Jean
Lorrain, and Pieyre de Mandiargues. This work appeals to readers
interested in linguistics, French history, psychology, art, and
material culture. It invites analyses of historical and ideological
contexts, rhetorical strategies, symmetry and asymmetry. Ovid s
"Narcissus" and "Alice in Wonderland" are paradigms for the study
of micro and macro-structures. Analyses of mirrors as cultural
artefacts are significant to Lowrie s "sight seeing."
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