If Zorlu Center, a new-age bazaar which is the
chiasmus of high fashion, fine dining and performance art, is the heart of lifestyle in Istanbul, then the Raffles hotel, carved into the multi-use complex, is the center's heartbeat.
Banville reveals a very male literary scene after Yeats and Joyce, although he does stint his praise for the "legends": They "produced precious little, although the little they did produce was precious." Banville can turn a
chiasmus, even as he praises faintly.
(34)
Chiasmus names a rhetorical device in which words, phrases, and structures parallel each other in reverse order.
The first part purports to "disentangle the cultural
chiasmus" of Moorish-Christian relations (11), often misconstrued by scholars as a mix of infatuation and imitation of the idealized Moor, per romancero representations, pitted against the expurgation of ethnic otherness through political edicts.
In short, and in the form of a
chiasmus (just one of many), Klein tries "to clarify what Lacan's model of subjectivity means for our approaches to music, and what music means for our approaches to Lacan" (p-2).
However, Traub's arrangement of them as a dynamic
chiasmus enables her to produce a useful and original argument about the term "lesbian"--one that might resolve a debate about finding lesbian or feminist forebears in history.
AN EQUALLY FAMILIAR PATTERN, AND one that stands antithetical to isocolon is
chiasmus. The term comes from the Greek letter "chi" and its name describes its "x" shape.
The Semiotics of X:
Chiasmus, Cognition, and Extreme Body Memory
This book is not a summary of that scholarship but rather something of a popularization of many of its conclusions pressed into the service of a study of coherence as exemplified in the Quran through symmetry,
chiasmus, and pairing/organization of suras into unified sections or systems of textual and narrative coherence.
Jakobson's
chiasmus is undeniably elegant, and the beauty of a clear and simple structural description is in many respects worth striving for in scientific analysis.
Now on to the more, um, normal examples of spoonerisms, transpositions, and
chiasmus.