TY - BOOK AU - Beale,Walter H. TI - Learning from language: symmetry, asymmetry, and literary humanism T2 - Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture SN - 0-8229-6038-9 U1 - 808.042 21E PY - 2009/// CY - Pittsburgh PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - English language--Rhetoric KW - Symmetry in literature KW - Language and languages--Philosophy N1 - Bibliogr. p. 183-190; 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 ER -