Greek Ritual Poetics
Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, Greek Ritual Poetics offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritual in Greek traditions by exploring a broad spectrum of texts, art, and social practices. This collection of essays written by an international group of leading scholars in a number of disciplines presents a variety of methodological approaches to secular and religious rituals, and to the narrative and conceptual strategies of their...
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Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, Greek Ritual Poetics offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritual in Greek traditions by exploring a broad spectrum of texts, art, and social practices. This collection of essays written by an international group of leading scholars in a number of disciplines presents a variety of methodological approaches to secular and religious rituals, and to the narrative and conceptual strategies of their reenactment and manipulation in literary, pictorial, and social discourses. Addressing understudied aspects of Greek ritual and societies, this book will prove significant for classicists, anthropologists, Byzantinists, art historians, neohellenists, and comparatists interested in the interaction between ritual, aesthetics, and cultural communicative systems.
1Provisionally structured ideas on a heuristically defined concept : toward a ritual poetics32Monumentality and ritual in archaic Greece373Ritual poetics in archaic Lesbos : contextualizing genre in Sappho564Tragedy, ritual, and money715Not by words alone : ritual approaches to Greek literature946Ritual and poetics in Greek modernism1217Poetics of repetition in Homer1398Now and forever in Greek drama and ritual1499Gendering the Athenian funeral : ritual reality and tragic manipulations16110"Let the good prevail" : perversions of the ritual process in Greek tragedy18911Playing at ritual : variations on a theme in Byzantine religious tales19912The sacred and the profane : re-enacting ritual in the medieval Greek novel21013Human rites : building and bombing bridges in the Balkans22714The "anodos" of the bride24515The narratological role of social and religious rituals in Herodotus' Histories26116Dance as ritual, dance as performance27917Wedding : re-composing a ritual in shadow theater performances29718The body's language : representations of dance in modern Greek literature30719In a virtual wild space : pilgrimage and Rite de Passage from Delphi to Sabarimalai32320Ritual dreams and historical orders : incubation between paganism and Christianity33821The ritual of petition35622Rites of spring : ritual, resistance, and taxonomic regimentation in Greek cultural history37123How to do things with things : architecture and ritual in northern Greece38324Little soldiers for/against the state : embodied repositionings in a male rite of passage in northern Greece405
