Schlagwort: ring structures
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What do Ring Structures mean?
Do structures have a meaning at all? The common Structuralist approach – to which we adhere – is a clear yes. Structure is meaning. Structure imparts a certain meaning, too – if only in the sense that adherence to a certain, already-known structure shapes readers‘ expectations, and and hence produces meaning. A chiastic pattern suggests…
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Grimus – Simurg
Grimus is Salman Rushdie’s first novel. The title is an anagramm of „Simurg“, and the text is full of what one character calls „the ornithology of myth“ (Ch. 1). Grimus as a character is the secretive figure who seems to rule Calf (Qaf) Island, where most of the book takes place. Grimus claims to have…
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Sugar Maple, Episode 1: Bobby Lindro
Episode 1 begins with the killing of a huge tree – „bigger than you could ever imagine“. Then it introduces a narrator, situating himself in 1995, who narrates a story that goes back to 1951. Young orphan boy Bobby Lindley lives on a farm in Illinois with his aunt Buggy. He is obsessed with playing…
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The Central Ring in the Gospel of Mark
The ring of the Gospel of Mark is wrought around the central loading in Mark 7. As is sometimes the case, this central loading also has a ring structure. Here again, the technique of the author shows itself. The argument of this Gospel is highly structured; every part, every sentence, sometimes every word and the…
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Sugar maple – SETTING UP EXPECTATIONS
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 (which attracted me to it in the first place). The story stretches across several decades and musical styles, over which the Telecaster, „Sugar Maple,“ is played by a series of musicians.…
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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…