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Thinking in Circles

Paperback • 2010 • English

Thinking in Circles

By Mary Douglas

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About the book

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 antiq...Show more

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9780300167856

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Thinking in Circles

Format

Paperback

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