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Learning from language : symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism /

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Main Author: Beale, Walter H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
Series:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Subjects:
English language > Rhetoric.
Symmetry in literature.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism
  • Two famous asymmetrists
  • Six claims of symmetry
  • Reading the world: structural analogy
  • Creating the world: the performative principle
  • Naming and renaming the world
  • Figuring (out) the world: tropes and tropology
  • Style and virtue
  • Conclusion: the love of words.