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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 chiast

Rhetoric --- Chiasmus. --- Interpersonal relations and culture. --- Culture and interpersonal relations --- Culture --- Chiasm (Rhetoric) --- Figures of speech --- Literary style --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Social aspects. --- Rhetoric-Social aspects.