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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 .

Chiasmus. --- French literature --- French language --- Symmetry in literature. --- French literature. --- Chiasm (Rhetoric) --- Figures of speech --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric. --- Style.

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A study of palindromic structures (words or phrases that can be read the same way forwards and backwards) in the works of Bonaventure, Dante, Boccaccio, and the Franciscan writers of the late Middle Ages. The author, Sister Lucia Treanor, provides the conceptual basis for the use of the palindrome while demonstrating that palindrome was not just an ornamental style of writing, but also a reflection of humanity's perception of the world. Significant attention has been paid to Franciscan theology as it relates to human endeavors and God's creation.

Chiasmus. --- Christianity and literature -- History -- To 1500. --- Franciscans -- Influence. --- Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. --- Spirituality in literature. --- Symmetry in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Chiasmus --- Symmetry in literature --- Spirituality in literature --- Rhetoric --- Christianity and literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Chiasm (Rhetoric) --- Figures of speech --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- History and criticism --- Catholic Church --- Religious aspects --- History --- 271.3-7 "12/14" --- 873.3 --- 271.3-7 "12/14" Franciskaanse liturgie en spiritualiteit--?"12/14" --- Franciskaanse liturgie en spiritualiteit--?"12/14" --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Middeleeuws Latijnse literatuur --- Franciscans --- Alcantarines --- Bernardyni --- Cordeliers --- Discalced Friars Minor --- Família Franciscana --- Frades Menores --- Frailes Menores --- Franciscains --- Franciscains mineurs --- Franciscan Discalceati --- Franciscan Order --- Franciscan Reformati --- Franciszkanie --- Frant︠s︡iskanskiĭ orden --- Frant︠s︡iskant︠s︡y --- Frati minori --- Fratres minores --- Frères mineurs --- Friars, Gray --- Friars Minor --- Gråbrøderne --- Gray Friars --- Grey Friars --- Mala braća --- Minderbrüder --- Minoriten --- Minorites --- O.F.M. --- Observants --- OFM --- Ojcowie Franciszkanie --- Ordem dos Frades Menores --- Ordem dos Franciscanos --- Ordem Franciscana --- Orden de Frailes Menores --- Orden de los Frailes Menores --- Orden Franciscana --- Orden sv. Frant︠s︡iska --- Order of Friars Minor --- Ordine dei Frati Minori --- Ordine dei minori --- Ordre des frères franciscains mineurs --- Ordo Fratrum Minorum --- Reformati --- Reformed Franciscans --- Seraphic Order --- Capuchins --- Conventuals --- Franciscan Recollects --- Influence. --- 873.3 Middeleeuws Latijnse literatuur

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Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier--"Don't disturb my circles"--words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction. Stories and theorems are, in a sense, the natural languages of these two worlds--stories representing the way we act and interact, and theorems giving us pure thought, distilled from the hustle and bustle of reality. Yet, though the voices of stories and theorems seem totally different, they share profound connections and similarities. A book unlike any other, Circles Disturbed delves into topics such as the way in which historical and biographical narratives shape our understanding of mathematics and mathematicians, the development of "myths of origins" in mathematics, the structure and importance of mathematical dreams, the role of storytelling in the formation of mathematical intuitions, the ways mathematics helps us organize the way we think about narrative structure, and much more. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Amir Alexander, David Corfield, Peter Galison, Timothy Gowers, Michael Harris, David Herman, Federica La Nave, G.E.R. Lloyd, Uri Margolin, Colin McLarty, Jan Christoph Meister, Arkady Plotnitsky, and Bernard Teissier.

Mathematics --- Communication in mathematics. --- Math --- Science --- Language. --- History. --- Alasdair MacIntyre. --- Archimedes. --- Aristotle. --- Bleak House. --- Borel sets. --- Bourbaki. --- Carl Friedrich Gauss. --- David Hilbert. --- Emmy Noether. --- Enlightenment. --- G. E. R. Lloyd. --- Georg Cantor. --- Greece. --- Jean-Pierre Vernant. --- John Archibald Wheeler. --- K-ness. --- L'Algebra. --- Leo Perutz. --- Leopold Kronecker. --- Middlemarch. --- Paul Gordan. --- Plato. --- Rafael Bombelli. --- Robert Thomason. --- ThomasonДrobaugh article. --- Tom Trobaugh. --- abstraction. --- aesthetic contingency. --- algebra. --- automated theorem provers. --- axiomatic mathematics. --- belief. --- chiasmus. --- clues. --- cognitive meaning. --- compound machines. --- computational modeling. --- computer simulations. --- cubic equations. --- deductive mathematics. --- diagramma. --- dreams. --- energeia. --- epistemology. --- existential contingency. --- explanation. --- exploration mathematics. --- finiteness theorems. --- focalization. --- forensic rhetoric. --- formal models. --- geometry. --- ghost. --- ghostwriter. --- group. --- highest common factor. --- imaginary numbers. --- incommensurability. --- intuition. --- irony. --- literary narrative. --- literature. --- machine metaphor. --- mathematical argument. --- mathematical concepts. --- mathematical enquiry. --- mathematical line. --- mathematical modeling. --- mathematical models. --- mathematical objects. --- mathematical physics. --- mathematicians. --- mathematics. --- metanarratology. --- metaphor. --- myth. --- narrative analysis. --- narrative representation. --- narrative subjectivity. --- narrative. --- narratology. --- negative numbers. --- non-Euclidean epistemology. --- non-Euclidean geometry. --- non-Euclidean mathematics. --- non-Euclidean physics. --- non-Euclidean thinking. --- orthe. --- permutation groups. --- perspective. --- poetic storytelling. --- polynomial equations. --- proof. --- quantum mechanics. --- rational enquiry. --- rationality. --- reality. --- scientific inquiry. --- square roots. --- story generator algorithm. --- story grammars. --- story. --- storytelling. --- structural linguistics. --- symbols. --- theology. --- theorems. --- tragic mathematical heroes. --- truth. --- variste Galois. --- vestibular line. --- visions. --- visual line. --- vividness. --- Communication in mathematics