Mock ritual in the modern era /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McGinnis, Reginald, 1959- (Author), Smyth, John Vignaux (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Oxford ritual studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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