Ritual Passages and Narrative Structures
Title | Ritual Passages and Narrative Structures PDF eBook |
Author | Langdon Elsbree |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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This book explores the homology between ritual passages and narrative structures. The ways that rites of passage, particularly their liminal stage, correspond with narrative structures and the advantages of these correspondences for literary criticism and analysis are the central arguments of this study. Drawing on a wide range of examples, mainly from 19th and 20th Century English and American literature, it concentrates on the middle stage of liminality, where the identity themes, the implications of choice, and the values in conflict emerge most clearly. Drawing on recent work in anthropology and the other social sciences, it suggests new perspectives for understanding the relationships between rite and story and between «art» and «life».
Ritual and Narrative
Title | Ritual and Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Vera Nünning |
Publisher | transcript Verlag |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2014-03-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3839425328 |
Ritual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves. How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from concepts of ritual studies in analysing narrative? This book brings together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science. It presents theoretical explorations as well as in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative in different media and historical contexts.
Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus
Title | Ritual Words and Narrative Worlds in the Book of Leviticus PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan D. Bibb |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2009-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567513033 |
This book argues that literary features and ritual dynamics within the book of Leviticus enlighten each other. The first two chapters establish that one may read Leviticus as a coherent literary work and define the genre of Leviticus as "narrativized ritual," a complex blending of descriptive narrative and prescriptive ritual. In conversation with Catherine Bell, they present several aspects of the text that are ritualized and show how this ritualization implies a negotiation of power relations among participants. The third and fourth chapters examine the first half of Leviticus, both the legal sections in Lev. 1-7 and 11-15 and the narratives in Lev. 8-10 and 16. These sections alternate between establishing the ritual system and exposing gaps and ambiguities in that system.Chapter 5 turns to the second half of Leviticus, traditionally called the Holiness Code. The ritual language found in this section is less formal and precise, mirroring the way in which the concept of holiness is expanded and extended to the whole people. As this material concludes the book, it relativizes and democratizes the strict ritual system contained in the first half.
Rites of Passage: Rational/Irrational Natural/Supernatural Local/Global
Title | Rites of Passage: Rational/Irrational Natural/Supernatural Local/Global PDF eBook |
Author | Associazione italiana di anglistica. Congresso |
Publisher | Rubbettino Editore |
Pages | 580 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9788849806571 |
The Craft of Ritual Studies
Title | The Craft of Ritual Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Grimes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0195301420 |
Readership: Students and scholars of ritual studies, religious studies, anthropology
The Rites of Passage
Title | The Rites of Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold van Gennep |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136538852 |
Van Gennep was the first observer of human behaviour to note that the ritual ceremonies that accompany the landmarks of human life differ only in detail from one culture to another, and that they are in essence universal. Originally published in English in 1960. This edition reprints the paperback edition of 1977.
Handbook of Narratology
Title | Handbook of Narratology PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hühn |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 780 |
Release | 2014-10-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110382075 |
This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology and is now available in a second, completely revised and expanded edition. Detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate central terms of narratology, present a critical account of the major research positions and their historical development and indicate directions for future research.