Gebundenes Buch

Chiasmus and Culture

Beschreibung

Uses the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation Provides first book-length study of chiastic thought Contributors explore what chiasmus reveals about the world, cultural patterns, human relations, psychology, and artistic and poetic creation.

Autor

Boris Wiseman is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Copenhagen University. He is the author of Lévi-Strauss Anthropology and Aesthetics (2007) and has edited two collections of essays on Lévi-Strauss, a special issue of Les Temps modernes (2004) and the Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss (2009) and co-edited a special issue of the journal Paragraph (2011) on French philosopher Claude Imbert. He has an interest in aesthetics and the senses and is currently working on the visual capture of movement, in particular in 19th century France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780857459602
• ISBN-10: 0857459600
• Artikelnr.: 40888604