Mock Ritual in the Modern Era Hardback
by Reginald (Professor of French, Professor of French, University of Arizona) McGinnis, John Vignaux (Professor of English, Professor of English, Portland State University) Smyth
Part of the OXFORD RITUAL STUDIES SERIES series
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Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficial face of claims to rationality.
McGinnis and Smyth consider how the mocking and parodying of ritual often associated with modern rationalism may itself become ritualized, and other ways in which supposedly sham ritual may survive its "outing." This volume traces the evolution of "mock ritual" in various forms throughout the modern era, as found in literary, historical, and anthropological texts as well as encyclopedias, newspapers, and films.
Mock Ritual in the Modern Era places famous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors in dialogue with contemporary popular culture, from Diderot, Sterne, and Flaubert to the TV shows Survivor and Judge Judy, and from Voltaire to the Charlie Hebdo tragedy of 2015.
Ritualistic and mock ritualistic aspects of comedy and ridicule are considered along with those, notably, of sexuality, medicine, art, education, and justice.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:14/11/2022
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- ISBN:9780197637432
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:14/11/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780197637432
