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Thinking in circles : an essay on ring composition /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Terry lectures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.