RT Book
T1 Mock Ritual in the Modern Era
T2 Oxford Ritual Studies Ser.
A1 McGinnis, Reginald
A2 Smyth, John Vignaux
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Oxford University Press, Incorporated
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1815267631
AB Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery. McGinnis and Smyth trace 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.
AB Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Mock Ritual in the Modern Era -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ridicule -- 2. Mock Ritual in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedia -- 3. Mocking Priests in Tristram Shandy and Jacques le fataliste -- 4. Mock Ritual and the Emergence of Objectivity in Madame Bovary -- 5. Mock Ritual and Medicine in Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas -- 6. The Duel as Privatized Mock Ritual -- 7. Charlie Hebdo: The Ambivalence of Mockery -- Summation -- Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Mock Ritual Now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
SN 9780197637456
K1 Wit and humor-History and criticism-21st century
K1 Electronic books