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Chiasmus --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Doctrines. --- Biblia --- Hermeneutics.

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Chiasmus. --- English language --- Tragedy. --- Style. --- Macbeth, --- Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William, --- In literature. --- Literary style.

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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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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.

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This pathbreaking study reveals Purcell's extensive use of symmetry and reversal in his much-loved trio sonatas, and shows how these hidden structural processes make his music multilayered and appealing.

MUSIC --- Genres & Styles --- Classical. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Sonata. --- Purcell, Henry, --- Sonata --- Sonatas --- Sonatina --- Musical form --- History and criticism --- Trio sonata --- Chamber music --- Music --- Baroque. --- Chiasmus. --- Commutatio. --- Composition. --- Compositional Process. --- Consort. --- Counterpoint. --- Creativity. --- English Music. --- Fugue. --- Ground Bass. --- Music Analysis. --- Palindrome. --- Proportions. --- Purcell. --- Restoration. --- Rhetoric. --- Symmetry. --- Trio Sonatas.