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McConnell, Michael Constantine, Outer Reaches of the Palindrome. Master of
Arts (English), December 2003, 51 pages, references, 10 titles.
This work is an exploration into the palindrome, both as a literary form and an
expression of infinity. The first two chapters address the fascinating manner in which the
mind contextualizes fragments of speech and ludicrous grammatical implications that are
spawned by the poetic structure of the palindrome (third chapter). The thesis then departs
from the literary aspect of the palindrome and focuses in the fourth chapter on structural
likenesses in psychology and mythology. The fifth chapter argues the palindrome and
parallel conceptual structures as examples of recursion, then presents examples of
recursion in language/grammar, art, and computer science. The sixth chapter uses
instances of the recursive equiangular spiral throughout nature to introduce recursion and
therefore the palindrome as an archetypal expression of infinity. The thesis ends with a
list of the author's palindromes.
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McConnell, Michael Constantine. Outer Reaches of the Palindrome, thesis, December 2003; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4407/m1/2/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .