Greek ritual poetics

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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.