published book, "Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition," came out this year; it offers interpretations of texts structured in circular patterns like the Book of Numbers, Chinese novels and Zoroastrian poetry."Writings that used to baffle and dismay unprepared readers, when read correctly, turn out to be marvelously controlled and complex compositions," she wrote.
from The New York Times: Dame Mary Douglas, 86, a Wide-Ranging Anthropologist, Is Dead
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