Learning from language
Subtitle: symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism
By: Walter H. Beale.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822960386
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric; Symmetry in literature; Language and languages -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism; title: Two famous asymmetrists; title: Five claims of symmetry; title: Reading the world: structural analogy; title: Creating the world: the performative principle; title: Naming and renaming the world; title: Figuring (out) the world: tropes and tropology; title: Style and virtue; title: Conclusion: the love of words.