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| #641337 in Books | 2010-09-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .45 x5.50 x8.10l,.50 | File type: PDF | 192 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Round and round and round|By Frank Ramirez|Mary Douglas made a compelling case that the ancients thought in circles, using Torah and Iliad as her examples, and less convincingly a more modern author. I'm not convinced, but so what? She's a brilliant writer and why would I assume I was right and she was wrong? My brain hurt for awhile after I finished the book, but it was worth||
"Over the course of her career Ms. Douglas has become a master at discerning order in unexpected forms and surprising places. In an unassuming way, without pretense or revolutionary claims, she reveals the logic behind the varied customs of a society
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 schola...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition (The Terry Lectures Series) | Mary Douglas.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
