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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 todays 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 Homers Iliad, the Bibles book of Numbers, and, for a challenging modern example, Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy, developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones.
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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? This title examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way.
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Not since Levy-Strauss has any anthropologist done so much to cast light on literary problems as Mary Douglas. Everything she touches she illuminates. --Gabriel Josipovici, author of The Book of God: A Response to the Bible
Succinct, unpretentious, wise and, best of all, reconstructive ... A valuable contribution to cultural studies in the widest sense of the term, making one wish the term were more often stretched this finely ... a sagacious field guide, pleasing and teasing our tastes for turnings. --Jennifer Formichelli, Essays in Criticism
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0300167857
- ISBN 13 9780300167856
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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