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This book explores the homology between ritual passages and narrative structures. The ways that rites of passage, particularly their liminal stage, correspond with narrative structures and the advantages of these correspondences for literary criticism and analysis are the central arguments of this study. Drawing on a wide range of examples, mainly from 19th and 20th Century English and American literature, it concentrates on the middle stage of liminality, where the identity themes, the implications of choice, and the values in conflict emerge most clearly. Drawing on recent work in anthropology and the other social sciences, it suggests new perspectives for understanding the relationships between rite and story and between «art» and «life».
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The Author: Langdon Elsbree is Professor of English and a member of the Literature department at Claremont McKenna College. He received his undergraduate degree from Earlham and his graduate degrees from Cornell and the Claremont Graduate School. His previous teaching experience includes Miami University, Harvey Mudd College, Scripps College, and the graduate English program of the California State University at Los Angeles. Since 1967, he has been a member of the Claremont Graduate School faculty. He has also served as a Fulbright Lecturer in Egypt and as Visiting Professor at Carleton. His publications include several editions of the Heath Handbook, The Rituals of Life, and a variety of essays and reviews.
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Ritual Passages and Narrative Structures
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi, 1991
ISBN 10: 0820413356
ISBN 13: 9780820413358
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