TY - BOOK ID - 12166577 TI - Thinking in circles PY - 2007 SN - 9780300117622 0300117620 9786611734794 1281734799 0300134959 9780300134957 9781281734792 6611734791 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - 82-3 KW - Proza. Fictie. Narratologie KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Homer. KW - Sterne, Laurence, KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie KW - Narration (Rhetoric). KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Aʻdād (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Ba-midbar (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Bamidbar (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Bamidbor (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Be-midbar (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Bemidbar (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Kitāb-i Bi-mīdbār (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Minsugi (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Numbers (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Numeri (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Homer KW - 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative KW - Fiction. Prose narrative KW - Homer - Iliad KW - Sterne, Laurence, - 1713-1768. - Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12166577 AB - 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. ER -