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" Learning from language : "
Walter H. Beale
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BL
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| Record Number
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587245
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b416464
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| Main Entry
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Beale, Walter H
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| Title & Author
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Learning from language : : symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism /\ Walter H. Beale
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| Publication Statement
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Pittsburgh :: University of Pittsburgh Press,, c2009
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| Series Statement
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Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
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ix, 196 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0822960389
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: 9780822960386
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index
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| Contents
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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
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English language-- Rhetoric
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Symmetry in literature
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Language and languages-- Philosophy
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| LC Classification
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PE1403.B43 2009
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