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Reginald McGinnis, John Vignaux Smyth - Mock Ritual in the Modern Era, Inbunden

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Mock Ritual in the Modern Era

Av Reginald McGinnis, John Vignaux Smyth

Del i serien OXFORD RITUAL STUDIES 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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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-11-14
  • Mått: 238 x 163 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 522 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: OXFORD RITUAL STUDIES SERIES
  • Antal sidor: 262
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780197637432
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Reginald McGinnis is Professor of French at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Essai sur l'origine de la mystification and coeditor, with Fayçal Falaky, of Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France.John Vignaux Smyth is Professor of English at Portland State University. He is the author of The Habit of Lying.

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At the heart of this lively and astute study is the vexed entwinement of ritual with ridicule. In a briskly paced series of readings of literary works from Voltaire and Diderot to Michel Houellebecq and Charlie Hebdo, McGinnis and Smyth show us that while every ritual threatens to become a parody of itself, so does even the fiercest mockery of ritual inevitably assume its own ritualistic aspect. We are as ensnared today as were the writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment, in the joke of jokes: that to laugh at high seriousness is to claim a no less risible high seriousness for ourselves.

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