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Thinking in circles :

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6611734791

9780300134957

9786611734794

0300117620

1281734799

9780300117622

9781281734792

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Thinking in circles :

[Book]

an essay on ring composition /

Mary Douglas.

New Haven :

Yale University Press,

©2007.

1 online resource (xv, 169 pages) :

illustrations.

Terry lecture series

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ancient rings worldwide -- Modes and genres -- How to construct and recognize a ring -- Alternating bands : numbers -- The central place : numbers -- Modern, not-quite rings -- Tristram Shandy : testing for ring shape -- Two central places, two rings : the Iliad -- Alternating nights and days : the Iliad -- The ending : how to complete a ring -- The latch : Jakobson's conundrum.

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Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel. To read a ring composition in the modern linear fashion is to misinterpret it, Douglas contends, and today's scholars must reevaluate important antique texts from around the world. Found in the Bible and in writings from as far a field as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? What is its function in social contexts? The author examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. She focuses on ring composition in Homer's "Iliad", the Bible's book of "Numbers", and, for a challenging modern example, Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy", developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

JSTOR

22573/ctt11303b

Thinking in circles.

9780300117622

Homer., Iliad.

Sterne, Laurence,1713-1768., Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.

Bible., Numbers-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible., Numbers.

Iliad (Homer)

Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence)

Narration (Rhetoric)

Ilias (Homerus)

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Composition & Creative Writing.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Rhetoric.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.

Narration (Rhetoric)

Numeri (bijbelboek)

REFERENCE-- Writing Skills.

Ringcomposities.

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne)

Verteltheorie.

DSB

LAN-- 005000

LAN-- 015000

LIT000000

REF-- 026000

Douglas, Mary,1921-2007

20201207171222.0

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