Kategorie: Circle Loop Pool Electric – A Blog On Ring Structures
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sugar maple – a podcast with a ring structure
Sugar Maple is an eight-episode dramatic fiction podcast from Osiris Media. Each episode centers around one owner of a semi-mythical Fender Telecaster electric guitar. The story stretches across several decades and musical styles, over which the Telecaster, „Sugar Maple“ is played by a series of musicians. To each, the guitar brings both (ephemereal) success and…
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The Ring of Mark
An introduction into the ring structure of the Gospel of Mark. The Gospel of Mark was written around 70 AD and is believed to be the oldest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament. Within the canonical counting of the Gospels in the New Testament it is the second. It also belongs to…
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On smaller rings in the Gospel of Markus
A major ring, says Mary Douglas, (pp. 32-33), is a triumph of chiastic ordering. […] A Chiasmus is a rhetorical technique that pairs two items the other way round: AB – B’A‘. Mary Douglas shows spontaneous short chiastic forms in the speeches of an old gardener: A These young plants don’t want too much water; …
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Ringe in der Zeit
Apologies for the German headline, but the pun is too good to miss. In a dossier coinciding with the New Year, the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit asks „Was ist morgen“ – „what is tomorrow“ – and answers the question with an article that has an almost perfect Ring Structure. This is a list of…
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Case Studies on Ring Structures
Over time, we will blog about Ring Structures in diverse texts – as befits the loose structure of a blog, not in a particular methodic fashion, but rather one example at a time. Examples will probably include (and completed entries will be linked from this list): Hopefully, from the description a number of common elements…
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Ring Structures – Secondary Literature
Wikipedia has it that Ring Structures or chiastic structures are prominent in antique literature, and cites the Bible, the Quran, Iliad and Odyssey, Herodot, Beowulf, and other examples from antiquity. Examples from the Book of Mormon can hardly come as a surprise, since that book is heavily modeled on the style of the Hebrew Bible.…