Outer Reaches of the Palindrome Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Outer Reaches of the Palindrome

Creator

  • Author: McConnell, Michael Constantine
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Ross, John Robert, 1938-
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Rodman, Barbara
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Minor Professor
  • Committee Member: Souris, Stephen
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Minor Professor

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

Date

  • Creation: 2003-12
  • Digitized: 2003-12-05

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: 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.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Palindromes.
  • Keyword: Palindrome
  • Keyword: recursion
  • Keyword: spriral

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Holder: McConnell, Michael Constantine
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • OCLC: 54446720
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc4407

Degree

  • Degree Name: Master of Arts
  • Degree Level: Master's
  • Degree Discipline: English
  • Academic Department: Department of English
  • Degree Grantor: University of North Texas

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