Greek Ritual Poetics

by: Yatromanolakis, D. Roilos, P.

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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 re-enactment and manipulation in literary, pictorial, and social discourses. Addressing underexplored 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.

pt. I: Ritual poetics
Provisionally structured ideas on a heuristically defined concept: toward a ritual poetics / Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos
pt. II: Ritual textures
Monumentality and ritual in archaic Greece / Robin Osborne
Ritual poetics in archaic Lesbos: contextualizing genre in Sappho / Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Tragedy, ritual, and money / Richard Seaford
Not by words alone: ritual approaches to Greek literature / Margaret Alexiou
Ritual and poetics in Greek modernism / Panagiotis Roilos
pt. III: Ritual reflections
Poetics of repetition in Homer / Gregory Nagy
Now and forever in Greek drama and ritual / Pat Easterling
Gendering the Athenian funeral: ritual reality and tragic manipulations / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
"Let the good prevail": perversions of ritual process in Greek tragedy / Albert Henrichs
Playing at ritual: variations on a theme in Byzantine religious tales / John Duffy
The sacred and the profane: re-enacting ritual in the medieval Greek novel / Panagiotis Roilos
Human rites: building and bombing bridges in the Balkans / Vangelis Calotychos
pt. IV: Ritual embodiments/textual positionalities
The "Anodos" of the bride / Gloria Ferrari
The narratological role of social and religious rituals in Herodotus' histories / Angus Bowie. Dance as ritual, dance as performance / Ioli Kalavrezou
Wedding: re-composing a ritual in shadow theater performances / Anna Stavrakopoulou
The body's language: representations of dance in modern Greek literature / Gail Holst-Warhaft. pt. V: Technologies of ritual and cultural architectonics
In a virtual wild space: pilgrimage and rite of passage from Delphi to Sabarimalai / Ian Rutherford
Ritual dreams and historical orders: incubation between paganism and christianity / Charles Stewart
The ritual of petition / Ruth Macrides
Rites of spring: ritual, resistance, and taxonomic regimentation in Greek cultural history / Michael Herzfeld
How to do things with things: architecture and ritual in northern Greece / Laurie Kain Hart
Little soldiers for/against the state: embodied repositionings in a male rite of passage in northern Greece / Jane K. Cowan

Series:
Hellenic studies, 3

IX, 482 p. ; 23 cm.

Greek Ritual Poetics

by: Yatromanolakis, D. Roilos, P.

• ISBN-13: 9780674017924 / 978-0-674-01792-4
• ISBN-03: 0674017927 / 0-674-01792-7
• Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004

Price: 49,00 EURO

1 copy in stock