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Antimetabole appears in a wide variety of contexts, from jokes and idioms to political speeches and literature. It can be used to convey paradoxes and irony, to strengthen an argument, or to show in a novel way how two ideas relate to each other.
Antimetabole is a figure of speech in which words or clauses from the first half of a sentence are repeated in the second half of the sentence in reverse order.
“This fascinating study shows how a thermodynamic understanding of energy is essential to ecological thinking, and how nineteenth-century fiction helps enable that understanding by offering a vehicle for thinking about ecology in terms of energy, and energy in terms of form.”
2 Οκτ 2014 · As a historical term, it points to the genre’s precursors; as a cultural label, it embraces practitioners from within the genre who emphasize the “literary” in several ways; as a reflection of the genre’s reception, it points to writers who move beyond or defy genre classification.
26 Ιουλ 2018 · Literary and cultural historians describe science fiction (SF) as the premiere narrative form of modernity because authors working in this genre extrapolate from Enlightenment ideals and industrial practices to imagine how educated people using machines and other technologies might radically change the material world.
Here is one of his clean and useful definitions: "SF is, then, a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions are the presence and interaction of estrangement and cognition, and whose main formal device is an imaginative framework alternative to the author's empirical environment" (pp. 7-8).
Atmospheres. The ideaof atmospheres has gained increased critical interest in recent years, most notably perhaps in Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s monograph Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung (2012), but also cognitivists like Peter Stockwell have discussed the use of atmosphere in literary studies.
