Name: Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition (The Terry Lectures Series) (en Inglés)
SKU: 3804051
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Author: Mary Douglas
ISBN: 9780300167856

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Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition (The Terry Lectures Series) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Yale University Press

Autor

Mary Douglas

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.50

ISBN

0300167857

ISBN13

9780300167856

Categorías

Ensayos literarios

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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 afield 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.