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Thinking in circles : an essay on ring composition / Mary Douglas.

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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 mid...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Series:Terry lectures.
Subjects:
Homer. > Iliad.
Bible. > Numbers > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Sterne, Laurence, > 1713-1768. > Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Bible. > Numbers.
Iliad (Homer)
Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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