Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nünning, Vera[Herausgeber]
• Rupp, Jan[Herausgeber]
• Ahn, Gregor[Herausgeber]

Titel

Ritual and Narrative : Theoretical Explorations and Historical Case Studies

Ist Teil von

• Kultur- und Medientheorie

Auflage

1st ed

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• i Contents v Preface and Acknowledgments vii Ritual and Narrative: An Introduction 1 Ritual Studies and Narratology: What Can They Do For Each Other 27 On the Narrativity of Rituals: Interfaces between Narratives and Rituals and Their Potential for Ritual Studies 51 Obama's American Narrative: A Narratological Approach to Complex Rituals 77 Depicting Sacrifice in Roman Asia Minor: Narratives of Ritual in Classical Archaeology 103 "He had just finished presenting the burnt offering ": Narrative and Ritual in the Context of Saul's Failure (1 Sam 13-14) 131 Two Types of Magic in One Tradition? A Cognitive-Historiographical Case Study on the Interplay of Narratives and Rituals 165 Ritual, Narrative, and Identity in English Pageant Fictions of the Interwar Years 189 Ritual and Narrative in the Intercultural British Novel at the Turn of the 21st Century 217 How to Commemorate a Fallen Soldier: Ritual and Narrative in the Bundeswehr 237 Notes on Contributors 267
• Ritual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves. How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from concepts of ritual studies in analysing narrative? This book brings together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science. It presents theoretical explorations as well as in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative in different media and historical contexts.
• Vera Nünning (PhD) is Chair of English Philology at the English Department of Heidelberg University, Germany.
• Jan Rupp (PhD) is a postdoctoral research assistant at the English Department of Heidelberg University, Germany.
• Gregor Ahn (PhD) is Chair of Religious Studies at Heidelberg University, Germany.
• English