Permanent Liminality and Modernity: Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels

by Arpad Szakolczai

Book Overview

This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality. Developing the view that with the theatre playing a central role, the modern world is conditioned as much by cultural processes as it is by economic, technological or scientific ones, the author contends the world is, to a considerable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367184664
• ISBN13: 9780367184667
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"