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Thinking in circles :

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0300134959

(Number (ISBN

6611734791

(Number (ISBN

9780300134957

(Number (ISBN

9786611734794

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0300117620

Erroneous ISBN

1281734799

Erroneous ISBN

9780300117622

Erroneous ISBN

9781281734792

Number

b701527

Title Proper

Thinking in circles :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

an essay on ring composition /

First Statement of Responsibility

Mary Douglas.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Haven :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Yale University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xv, 169 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Terry lecture series

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

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.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt11303b

Title

Thinking in circles.

International Standard Book Number

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

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Edition

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Book number

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Douglas, Mary,1921-2007

Date of Transaction

20201207171222.0

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[Book]

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