Fictive Ritual: Reading, Writing, & Ritualizing - Softcover

Grimes, Ronald L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481999265 ISBN 13: 9781481999267

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Fictive Ritual explores the ritual dimensions of literary fiction, drama, and autobiography. Among the works it considers are Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King, Jean Genet’s The Blacks: A Clown Show, Elie Wiesel’s Gates of the Forest, Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Words, Machado de Assis’ Dom Casmurro, and Søren Kierkegaard’s Repetition.

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About the Author:

Ronald L Grimes is the author of several books on ritual, most recently The Craft of Ritual Studies (Oxford University Press, 2014). He resides in Waterloo, Ontario, where he is Director of Ritual Studies International and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. Recently, he has held the following positions: Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at Charles University, Prague in the Czech Republic; Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer at Yale University; and Chair of Ritual Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1481999265
• ISBN 13: 9781481999267
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 189