e essays in this volume are concerned with chiastic inversion, and its place in social interactions, cultural creation and, more generally, human thought and experience. ey explore from a variety of angles what the unsettling logic of chiasmus has to tell us about the world, human relations, cultural patterns, psychology, and artistic and poetic creation. ey treat chiasmus not only as a gure of speech, but as a generative principle, an aesthetic idea, a method of composition, a tool of ideological manipulation, a matrix of social interaction, a philosophical problem, a metaphor, an elemental image or sign. At many points they engage in dialogue with one another as well as with key thinkers and authors who have written about or under the inspiration of chiastic logic.
Author(s): oris Wiseman, Anthony Paul (eds), Robert Hariman, Ivo Strecker, Stephen Tyler, Isabelle omas-Fogiel, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, Alain Vanier, Phillip John Usher, Ben Bollig, E. Douglas Lewis
Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 6
Edition: 1
Publisher: Berghahn
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 257
City: New York
1. From Stasis to Ékstasis: Four Types of Chiasmus 19
Anthony Paul
2. What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back 45
Robert Hariman
3. Chiasmus and Metaphor 69
Ivo Strecker
4. Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty: Metaphor or Concept? 91
Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel
5. Chiasmi Figuring Difference 116
Stephen Tyler
6. Forking: Rhetoric χ Rhetoric 124
Philippe-Joseph Salazar
7. Chiasm in Suspense in Psychoanalysis 143
Alain Vanier
8. Quotidian Chiasmus in Montaigne: Arguing Impotence and Suicide 148
Phillip John Usher
9. Travestis, Michês and Chiasmus: Crossing and Cross-Dressing in the Work of Néstor Perlongher 161
Ben Bollig
10. Parallelism and Chiasmus in Ritual Oration and Ostension in Tana Wai Brama, Eastern Indonesia 187
E. Douglas Lewis
11. Chiasmus, Mythical Creation and H.C. Andersen’s ‘ e Shadow’ 219
Boris Wiseman, followed by a ‘Response’ from Lucien Scubla
